American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died.

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From https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/08/09/749005287/american-with-no-medical-training-ran-center-for-malnourished-ugandan-kids-105-d
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American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

August 9, 2019 5:44 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered

NURITH AIZENMAN
MALAKA GHARIB


Renee Bach, 30, is being sued in Ugandan civil court over the deaths of children who were treated at the critical care center she ran in Uganda. She has left Uganda and is now living in Bedford County, Virginia, where she grew up.
Julia Rendleman/for NPR

Ten years ago, Renee Bach left her home in Virginia to set up a charity to help children in Uganda. One of her first moves was to start a blog chronicling her experiences.

Among the most momentous: On a Sunday morning in October 2011, a couple from a village some distance away showed up at Bach's center carrying a small bundle.

"When I pulled the covering back my eyes widened," Bach wrote in the blog. "For under the blanket lay a small, but very, very swollen, pale baby girl. Her breaths were frighteningly slow. ... The baby's name is Patricia. She is 9 months old."

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. and she's being defended by the group that defended Terry Schiavo nutjobs

https://www.ncll.org/news-alerts/help-defend-the-truth-renee-bach-and-serving-his-children

[Aristus]

2. Americans are tired of competence and expertise.

We want everything nowadays to be done by 'outsiders'.

Sure, people die, and once-great nations with them. But at least we're not sheeple who rely on those who know what they're doing. Oh no, not us. We steer our own course, free from informed opinions and knowledgeable action.

[Hortensis]

4. On top of everything, a wallow for self loathing grows with the swamp.

[Demovictory9]

3. i heard this on npr yesterday.Uganda expects that its citizens receives treatment from properly

trained medical personnel

[WhiskeyGrinder]

5. The arrogance.

[RockRaven]

6. Reminds me of Mother Teresa -- uses suffering and death of others to gratify themselves

and along the way their incompetence (or worse) enhances the problem they claim to be solving.

[Historic NY]

7. She used google to diagnose......