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Hospital provides an infrastructure for a wide range of clinical research projects. It has pioneered numerous innovations, including a paperless patient record system, which has also been adopted at Matlab Hospital. The 120-bed ICDDR,B-run Matlab Hospital is located within the Health and Demographic Surveillance Site at Matlab, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Dhaka. It provides free clinical care for diarrhoeal disease, maternal and child health care services, treating more than 30,000 people a year. It played a key role in community trials of oral rehydration solution (ORS) and early cholera vaccine studies.
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Rotavirus, uplifting family planning program etc. In 1978 proposal by an international group of scientists was put forward to elevate the organisation to an international research centre. The organisation was established in its current form via an ordinance promulgated by
President Ziaur Rahman and then that was ratified in parliament in 1979. The centre has, among its other accomplishments, played a major role in the discovery and implementation of
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ICDDR,B is supported by about 55 donor countries and organisations, including Sweden (SIDA), Canada, UK, Bangladesh, USA, UN specialised agencies, foundations, universities, research institutes and private sector organisations and companies that share the centre's concern for the health problems of
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became independent in 1971, activities were scaled down due to a scarcity of funds. Subsequently, a bilateral agreement was signed by
Bangladesh and USAID for direct fund flow to the organisation. Until 1978, there were number research accomplishments such as ORS, Patho-Physiology of shigellosis,
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ICDDR,B's headquarters in the Dhaka is located at
Mohakhali with modern laboratories and hospital, and training centers. Dhaka Hospital was established by ICDDR,B in 1962 primarily for diarrhoeal disease. It has since grown into a nationally important centre treating more than 140,000 patients a
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2010: ICDDR,B celebrates 50 years of operations. Sends teams to combat deadly cholera outbreaks in
Pakistan and Haiti. Research team discovers and characterise the "TLC phage" which changes the chromosomal sequence of the cholera bacterium, enabling incoming toxigenic CTX phage genome to be
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2016: Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged that ICDDR,B interventions are directly contributing to sustainable development, which helped to significantly reduce infant, child and maternal mortality in
Bangladesh and beyond.
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Mahbuba and Ronald Rousseau, Scientific research in Bangladesh and a comparison with India and Pakistan, Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting
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developing countries and who value its proven experience in helping solve those problems. The centre is governed by a distinguished multinational Board of Trustees comprising 17 members from all over the world.
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to a dangerous killer. Issued its first patent from the Director of United States Patent and Trademark Office (United States Patent US7638271) for inventing a new diagnostic method for tuberculosis, called
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2011: "Continuum of Care" (a concept involving a system that guides and tracks patients over time through a comprehensive array of health services) approach achieves 36% drop in perinatalmortality.
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noted that ICDDR,B's innovations are directly contributing to sustainable development, helping reduce infant, child and maternal mortality significantly in Bangladesh and beyond.
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1994: ICDDR,B epidemic response team goes to Goma, Zaire to assist cholera-stricken Rwandan refugees and helps reduce case fatality rate from as high as 49% to less than 1%.
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2014: Oral cholera vaccine in Bangladesh was found to have significant impact on cholera incidence when delivered through Bangladesh's existing immunisation infrastructure.
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made his major contribution to oral rehydration therapy in 1971 while working in Calcutta and served as Director of Clinical Research at ICDDR,B in the 1990s. In 2006, the
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