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19/10/22 06:49 AM IST

ORS icon Dr Dilip Mahalanabis dies in Kolkata

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  • Renowned physician, Dr Dilip Mahalanabis, credited with pioneering the oral rehydration therapy, died at a private hospital in Kolkata.
About Dr. Mahalnabis 
  • Dr Mahalanabis was working in refugee camps during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation war when he came up with ORS, which The Lancet called “the most important medical discovery of the 20th century.”
  • Between 1975 and 1979, Dr Mahalanabis worked for the World Health Organisation (WHO) in cholera control units in Afghanistan, Egypt and Yemen.
  • During the 1980s, he worked as a WHO consultant on management of bacterial diseases.
  • According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), diarrhoeal diseases, such as cholera, are among the leading causes of mortality in infants and young children in many developing countries, where the patient dies of dehydration.
  • ORS, a combination of water, glucose and salts, is a simple and cost-effective method of preventing this.
  • Oral rehydration therapy is a solution used to prevent and treat dehydration.
Source- Hindustan Times 

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