Dilip Mahalanabis
Indian paediatrician (1934β2022)
Dilip Mahalanabis ▸ Facts ▸ Comments ▸ News ▸ Videos
Dilip Mahalanabis was an Indian paediatrician known for pioneering the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrhoeal diseases. Mahalanabis had begun researching oral rehydration therapy in 1966 as a research investigator for the Johns Hopkins University International Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta, India. During the Bangladeshi war for independence, he led the effort by the Johns Hopkins Center that demonstrated the dramatic life-saving effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy when cholera broke out in 1971 among refugees from East Bengal who had sought asylum in West Bengal. The simple, inexpensive Oral Rehydration Solution (ORS) gained acceptance, and was later hailed as one of the most important medical advances of the 20th century.
0 shares | ShareTweetSavePostSend |
You Might Like
ORS pioneer among 26 unsung heroes on Padma awards listSP ex-chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, iconic architect Balkrishna Doshi and pioneer of ORS Dilip Mahalanabis have been posthumously awarded Padma Vibhushan, Indiaβs second-highest civilian award. Other..IndiaTimes - Published | |
Mulayam Singh, Zakir Hussain, Dilip Mahalanabis amid 6 Padma Vibhushan awardeesORS (oral rehydration solution) pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis will receive the Padma Vibhushan (posthumous) in the field of Medicine (Pediatrics), the Centre announced on Wednesday. A total of 25 other..IndiaTimes - Published | |
ORS pioneer Dilip Mahalanabis to receive Padma Vibhushan; 25 others to get Padma ShriIndiaTimes - Published | |
Search this site and the web: |