I don’t know if you read the article, but she was performing medical procedures with absolutely no training.
The care part may have been ok to good. But stuff like performing a blood transfusion on a 9 month old and then not being sure whether the baby was having a reaction because “google says there should be a rash if there is a reaction, but I see no rash” isn’t just insane, it may be torture.
No. “Random white woman” is not a medical qualification. If you are googling allergic reactions - and not even knowledgeable enough to do That (in transfusion reactions you are not looking for a rash) - you are absolutely not equipped to be giving IVs (and looking out for electrolyte problems, or water load problems), nor even to feed kids (because if you can’t handle IVs, you certainly can’t handle refeeding syndrome.)
Malnutrition isn’t that acute a condition. If a big pile of your patients are dropping dead in the first 24 hours, it’s a good hint that you’re precipitating an acute decline.
Uhm... She took medical actions instead of bringing them into the hospital and broke the law and therefore also denied many children the help they needed, quintessence is, she couldve saved many more lives.
"[...] the problem with Bach's center went beyond Bach's hands-on approach to medical procedures. Under both international health guidelines and Ugandan law, if a severely malnourished child has the kind of extra complications Bach's center was taking on — serious respiratory infections, dehydration, swelling — this child must be treated in an advanced medical facility."
The article mentions that just giving a malnourished child an IV can cause a heart attack. In fact doing nothing, in absence of expertise, is recommended.
The care part may have been ok to good. But stuff like performing a blood transfusion on a 9 month old and then not being sure whether the baby was having a reaction because “google says there should be a rash if there is a reaction, but I see no rash” isn’t just insane, it may be torture.