Dilip Mahalanabis was an Indian pediatrician and medical researcher who, during the 1971 refugee crisis on the border with what became Bangladesh, ran a clinical study demonstrating that a simple oral rehydration solution could treat the severe dehydration caused by cholera, at a time when intravenous treatment was impractical for the scale of the outbreak. His research findings helped establish oral rehydration therapy as a global public health tool credited with saving millions of lives from diarrheal disease.
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Dilip Mahalanabis (12 November 1934-16 October 2022) was an Indian paediatrician known for pioneering the use of oral rehydration therapy to treat diarrhoeal diseases.
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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.
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