He went to Uganda to fight against malnutrition and was charged with 105 deaths of children

Renée Bach, an American missionary from Bedford, Va., After being congratulated for her fight against childhood malnutrition in Uganda, has been brought to justice in this country for her alleged responsibility for the death of dozens of children. 39; children.

Bach, 30, had founded an organization to provide food for children in extreme poverty in the Ugandan town of Jinja, where he moved about ten years ago after feeling, he says, a kind God's call to help others.

"It was a very deep feeling and experience. […] as if he were supposed to do something, "said this woman to NPR, who decided to create the badociation" Serving His Children ", a branch of an evangelical organization based in the United States.

105 dead children

The SHC non-profit organization began to collaborate with the Ugandan government, was quickly accepted and praised by the people. In 2014, she received a medical license for which she could only function as an outpatient clinic without permission to perform procedures. complex.

However, Bach acknowledges that CSS has provided medical services since 2010 and the CSS documentation indicates that 105 Ugandan children died in the center out of the 940 admitted between 2015 and 2015.

"Mistakes have been made and lessons learned, but mistakes and life lessons have never hurt anyone," Bach told NBC News, saying the "success rate" of the organization in the treatment of children suffering from malnutrition was: more than 96%.

However, in 2011, the center recorded a mortality of 20% among all children entered, which was reduced to 18% for the following year. In 2013, when the director of SHC hired two doctors, the rate dropped to 10%.

No medical training

Following a complaint for irregularities addressed to the police, and after the expiry of her medical license, the CSS was closed in 2015. The complainant, Jackie Kramlich, was part of the organization as the 39, one of the American volunteers who crossed it.

Kramlich recounts an episode that summarized, according to her, a large part of the situations of daily life at the CSS: in October 2011, Bach was alone in the center when a 9-month-old girl with serious health problems entered and the missionary has diagnoses that have indicated malaria.

Bach knew that the girl needed a blood transfusion and immediately proceeded to her execution, although it was neither doctor nor professional medical training. A few minutes later, the little girl started to manifest an adverse reaction and Bach called Kramlich for help.

Upon arriving at the site, the center director, still holding the IV, said, "You know, I think I might have a reaction, but I do not know because Google says that there was a Meme it reaction, there would be a rash and I see no rash, "said Kramlich.

Appointment before the courts

Bach herself recounted in detail this episode in a blog post that was deleted. However, a copy of its contents was attached to a recent complaint filed against the missionary who sought to hold her responsible for the child deaths at the CSS.

The plaintiffs are two women who lost their two children in 2013 and 2018, the last one after the reopening of the clinic without Bach's participation in medical procedures. They say that they did not realize that Bach was not a doctor before the death of their children.

The missionary, however, stated that in the most recent of these deaths, the child was never admitted to the clinic, and that at the time of the first death, she was not in Uganda.

"I have never met her, I have never met her mother, but I can say with confidence that my heart is broken by her," Bach said. In the meantime, a survey conducted this year by health officials in Uganda revealed no evidence of women's active participation in the treatment of children.

After receiving several death threats, the missionary returned to the United States. She is therefore absent from a hearing held in March in Uganda. The next appointment is scheduled for January 2020 in Jinja.

RT