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Bangladeshi-American doctor has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Ruhul Abid and his non-profit organization Health and Education for All (Haifa). He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize at the suggestion of Boston University in Massachusetts. Dr. Ruhul Abid is a professor at the Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University in the United States. Jean-Philippe Belleau, professor of anthropology at Boston University in Massachusetts, USA, confirmed the news. A total of 211 people have been nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.
Dr. Abid graduated from Dhaka Medical College and has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Japan. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2001 on a scholarship. He is also an executive member of the Brown Global Health Initiative.
His organization Haifa provides free health care to the underprivileged in Bangladesh. In the past three years, the company has provided free medical services to some 30,000 garment workers. The organization has also provided uterine cancer screening and treatment services to some 9,000 disadvantaged women and garment workers and free medical care to more than 1,500 Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar. Currently, the agency is training two Rohingya camps to develop skills in treating corona virus infections.
After the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, Dr. Abid founded Haifa with a desire to provide medical care to garment workers across the country. In 2016, Haifa brought the digital innovation ‘Nirog’. It is a solar powered offline mobile electronic medical record (EMR) system. Through ‘Nirog’, Dr. Abid and his team confirm the medical records of people with chronic diseases, diagnose the disease and provide the corresponding medical services.
Haifa runs two free health care clinics for Rohingya and locals in the Kutupalong and Balukhali camps in Cox’s Bazar. Abid’s clinics treat chronic and long-term illnesses and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, complications from malnutrition, and uterine cancer.
In April 2020, Haifa began a collaboration with Brown University and the international health care organization Project Hope. Dr. Abid and his organization received the Grand Challenges Canada ‘Stars in Global Health’ award in 2016 for their philanthropic work. Dr. Abid does not receive any salary or reward for the work of his organization. The 2020 Nobel Prize winner will be announced in October.
Ittefaq / AC
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