Dilip Mahalanabis
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Dr Dilip Mahalanabis was a director of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh during the 1970s. The Centre is credited with discovering oral rehydration therapy for the treatment of diarrhoea and cholera during his time. Oral rehydration therapy is thought to have saved the lives of over 40 million people and it is still saving millions of people from diarrhoea. Dilip Mahalanabis started his work on oral rehydration therapy in 1966 as a research investigator for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta.
[edit] Awards
- Dilip Mahalanbis received the Pollin Prize for 2002. [1]
- Dilip Mahalanbis received the Mahidol Award for 2005 [2]
- International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh was awarded the Gates Award for Global Health in 2001
