Two Dutch doctors from the Slotervaart hospital in Amsterdam appear to have stumbled on a medical scandal in Bangladesh, the Telegraaf reports on Tuesday.

The doctors were carrying out research into the medicine Miltefosine which is used to treat the infectious disease Leishmaniasis (also known as black fever).
But they discovered that hundreds of patients are being treated with a so-called drug without any active ingredients.
The fake medicine is produced by a local factory. The Bangladesh authorities have been informed. Miltefosine is produced by German drugs firm Zentaris.