tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782254203352865878.post7209118877148466492..comments2023-09-08T03:09:49.937-07:00Comments on Blogging4GlobalDevelopment: The rise and fall of a global health success story, and how the G8 can bring it backDavid J. Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02509116417343212336noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7782254203352865878.post-11759041481499149022012-10-19T07:18:47.920-07:002012-10-19T07:18:47.920-07:00Excellent overview. It is painful for me to see de...Excellent overview. It is painful for me to see death due to diarrhoea. It is not just the packet use, just add a fistful of carbohydrate and a three finger pinch of salt to half a liter water or a little more water than that bring it to boil, cool it and let children with diarrhea take it ad lib, no need to boil if the cabohydrate is glucose or sucrose. It will save more lives. No doctor is needed to practice this treatment. In most developing countries if not in all of them one US dollar($1.00) is enough to save a life.<br /> Thank you Ingrid to bring this article to my attention, possibly stimulated by my presentation in the last Global Open Water Swimming Conference along with the picture of the girl swimming with the ORS packet. If at least one more life is saved by Ingrid's initiative it is surely worthwhile and I know our initiatives together can save thousands of lives.<br /> Thanks to David Olson and initiatives taken by PATH. PATH in Dhaka consulted me on this issue in the early eighties. I am thankful to PATH and my friends who worked in PATH....many of us Organizations and Individuals lead to this millions of lives saved and being saved on an ongoing basis. Thanks to those Open Water Swimmers who carries packets on a volunteery basis, in flooded areas sometimes as vast an area like being 60% of the country, as is in Bangladesh in some bad flooding years.<br /><br /> Dr. K.M.S. Aziz<br /> Formerly Associate Director of ICDDR,B<br /> Fellow Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS)<br /> Fellow American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) <br /> Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317280946735150952noreply@blogger.com