International Course on Management of Cholera, Invasive Diarrhea, and Malnutrition in Emergency

With tremendous improvement of public health, cholera, invasive diarrheas and under nutrition have become a remote possibility in the developed world. However, this comes with low immunity among the population and inadequate skill among the physicians because of less chance of exposure and opportunity of practicing the proper management respectively. On the other hand, the developing world and the emergency stricken places may not have adequate resource to manage the threat, which may cause a great loss of human lives in the days to come. Therefore, we need to be prepared through enhancing the capacity of managing such menaces across the globe.

Each year the hospitals at International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B) treat more than 100,000 diarrhea patients including those with cholera, invasive diarrheas and under nutrition. Dhaka hospital at ICDDR, B alone has the experience of treating more than one thousand patients a day with limited resources and the mortality has always been less than one percent. In the past, it has trained hundreds of Programme Officers, and Health Specialists, WES personnel and other relevant staffs from international organizations (IOs), non-government organizations (NGOs), UN agencies, universities and Ministry of Health (MoH) who respond to the health needs of populations affected by diarrheal epidemics. Photographs below shows the participants from Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Palestine, Afghanistan, Japan, USA, China, Uzbekistan, Angola, Uganda, Indonesia, Bangladesh etc attending this type of course in the past.

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