Renee Bach passed herself off as a doctor, according to court documents

More than a hundred babies died in Uganda after being cared for by an American missionary who spent years passing herself off as a doctor, according to court documents.

Dressed in a white coat and stethoscope, Renee Bach, 35, performed minor medical procedures on sickly children, many suffering from malnutrition, at the private clinic she set up at her home in Uganda, where scores of deaths were recorded.

Two mothers of babies who died at the clinic run by the charity Serving His Children (SHC) have brought a legal action against Ms Bach, who they claim was responsible for the deaths.

Ms Bach, who first visited Uganda as a teenage missionary from Virginia, returned in 2007 to set up her own charity in the eastern