Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis: Late Dr. Dilip Mahalanawish. He first invented ORS treatment during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.
The inventor of late ORS. Dilip Mahalanawish
Kolkata: Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's independence war. However, a humble Bengali doctor has remained invisible to everyone. However, his actions at that time, since 1971, have saved the lives of at least 7 crore people in India and around the world. Most are children. During the 1971 war, the refugee camps ran out of intravenous saline during a cholera epidemic. At that time, with the help of Johns Hopkins International Center for Medical Research and Training, oral rehydration salt or ORS was developed by pediatrician and clinical scientist Dr. Dilip Mahalanawish. On Saturday night, the doctor left almost without recognition.
This eminent doctor breathed his last in a private hospital near EM bypass on Saturday night. He was 88 years old. According to sources, he was suffering from old age problems for a long time. At present, almost everyone in the world uses ORS to treat diarrheal diseases. The Lancet Journal called it 'probably the most important medical advance' of the 20th century. But, Dr. Dilip Mahalan has remained almost forgotten. He did not receive proper recognition from the central or state governments for his achievements.
During the war in 1971, in a refugee camp in Bangaon, West Bengal, Dr. Dilip Mahalanwish. Until then, the only treatment for diarrhea was intravenous fluid saline. But, there was not enough saline in the camp as per demand. Dr. in this uncertain situation. Dilip Mahalanabish, with the help of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Medical Research and Training, took the risk of using oral rehydration therapy, or ORT, for camp residents. ORS prepared a mixture of four teaspoons of table salt, three teaspoons of baking soda and 20 teaspoons of commercial glucose.
Later, Dr. World Health Organization. Dilip Mahalanbish said, “Severely ill cholera patients were lying on the floors of two rooms in Bangaon Hospital. They literally had to kneel in feces, urine and vomit to treat them with intravenous saline. Within 48 hours of getting there, I realized we were losing the war. Because there was not enough saline. Only two members of my team were trained to give IV fluids." In this situation, Dr. started using the ORS that was still in the laboratory enclosure. Mahalanwish The use of ORS reduced the death rate in the camps under his supervision from 30 percent to 3.6 percent within two weeks. A description of how ORS is made by mixing salt and glucose was broadcast on a clandestine Bangladeshi radio station. The momentum of the war had changed.
For this extraordinary contribution, in 1994, Dr. was elected as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Mahalanwish In 2002, he received the Pauline Award from the United States, and the Prince Mahidol Award from the Government of Thailand in 2006. amazing
