New DelhiDilip Mahalanabis, who served in refugee camps during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, will be honored with the Padma Vibhushan by the Indian government, according to reports. He pioneered the use of ORS and saved lives across the world.
Dilip Mahalanabis, a paediatrician, passed away at the age of 87 in Kolkata on October 16, 2022. He was working as a research investigator on diarrheal diseases in Kolkata in 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
They were sent to refugee camps to be treated for cholera outbreaks. “Within 48 hours of getting there, I realized we were losing the battle because there was not enough IV and only two members of my team were trained to give IV fluids”, he recalled in a 2009 interview. Cited by The Lancet.
In such dire circumstances, he decided to allow people to use Oral Rehydration Therapy (ORT), which was a game-changer, as the case fatality ratio dropped from 30% to less than 4% among patients receiving ORT. as stated in the report. medical Journal.