Dr Dilip Mahalanabis was born on 12th November in 1934 and was an Indian pediatrician who was known for pioneering the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrheal diseases, know his age, biography, education and father
In the mid-1960s Dilip Mahalanabis did research on cholera and other diarrheal diseases at the Johns Hopkins International Center for Medical Research and Training in the city of Calcutta, India.
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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. He did this when cholera broke out in year 1971 among refugees from East Bengal who had sought asylum in West Bengal.
Dr Dilip Mahalanabis is no more !
An Indian who invented the ORS/ Oral Rehydration Solution ,which saved/saving millions of lives every year not only in India but all over the world.
He is My Bharat Ratna 🇮🇳
Tribute & Salute Sir 🌹🙏 pic.twitter.com/0SBmXqeiEn— Major Surendra Poonia (@MajorPoonia) October 17, 2022
He invented the ORS sachet that, next only to vaccines, saved millions of infants from certain death. Lancet termed it the greatest medical breakthrough of the twentieth century but leave alone the Nobel he never even got a Padma.
He was Dilip Mahalanabis. And he died yesterday. pic.twitter.com/VkTnjldXSk
— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) October 17, 2022
Dilip Mahalanabis’ Family And Education
Mahalanabis was married to Jayanti Mahalanabis. Unfortunately he died at a private hospital in West Bengal on the 16th of October in 2022 at the age of 87 years. He attained his primary as well as secondary education from Kolkata. He was considered as the father of ORS.
Dilip Mahalanabis Professional Career
In the mid-1980s and early of 1990s Dilip Mahalanabis was a medical officer in the Diarrheal Disease Control Programme of the WHO. Later on in the 1990s he worked being the Director of Clinical Research at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (ICDDR,B), Bangladesh.
In the year 1994 Dilip Mahalanabis was elected a foreign member of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 2002 Dr. Mahalanabis, Dr. Nathaniel Pierce, Dr. David Nalin and Dr. Norbert Hirschhorn, were awarded Pollin Prize in Pediatric Research for their contributions to implementation and discovery of oral rehydration therapy.
In 2006 Dr. Mahalanabis, Dr. Richard A. Cash and Dr. David Nalin were awarded the Prince Mahidol Prize for their role in the development and application of oral rehydration therapy. Oral rehydration therapy is globally used as an alternative to rehydration therapy that is carried out intravenously for treating dehydration that is caused by diarrhea. It is usually used when people don’t have access to intravenous therapy. The World Health Organization considers Oral rehydration to save more than 60 million lives to date.