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Bangladeshi-American physician Ruhul Abid and his non-profit organization Health and Education for All (Haifa) have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He was 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.
One of the 211 people nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Ruhul Abid.
Dr. Abid graduated from Dhaka School of Medicine and has a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Japan.
In 2001, he completed a fellowship at Harvard Medical School. She is also an executive member of the Brown Global Health Initiative.
His non-profit organization Health and Education for All (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 cervical cancer screening and medical services to some 9,000 disadvantaged women and garment workers and free medical care to more than 1,500 Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Currently, the agency is training people in two Rohingya refugee camps to develop skills for the coronavirus.
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.
He was a Dr. of Harvard Medical School in 2013. Rosemary along with Dudar provided free medical care to garment workers at three factories in Dhaka, Gazipur and Sreepur.
Initial testing examines whether Bangladeshi workers are at risk for chronic physical complications and diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, anemia, tuberculosis, and high-risk pregnancies. With a focus on these diseases, Haifa has carried out its next activities.
In 2016, Haifa brought the digital innovation ‘Nirog’. It is a solar powered mobile electronic medical record (EMR) system that can be used offline.
Dr. ‘healthy’. Abid and his team guarantee medical records, disease analysis and medical services accordingly for people with chronic diseases.
Haifa has been using ‘Nirog’ since October 9, 2016. Through this, a separate barcode digital health card system has been introduced for each patient.
Haifa runs two free health care clinics for Rohingya refugees and locals in the Kutupalong and Balukhali camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Information found in the investigation and description of the patient’s illness may be used by local health authorities and Cox’s Bazar government authorities, helping to diagnose the illness and ensure adequate medical care for patients.
Abid’s clinics treat chronic and long-term illnesses and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, complications of malnutrition, and uterine cancer.
The Rohingya of Myanmar have been denied citizenship since 1982 and are prone to malnutrition and disease due to a lack of sustainable health care.
For the past six months, Haifa has worked to prevent potential epidemics in densely populated refugee camps, including treating potential illnesses.
In April 2020, Haifa began a collaboration with Brown University and the international health care organization Project Hope. Through this, a four-day world-class Covid-19 skills training program was organized for healthcare workers working in major upazila public-private hospitals and health complexes in Bangladesh.
From April to August. Abid and Haifa have helped train more than 1,200 Bangladeshi health workers from 35 organizations.
Haifa expects to train another 3,600 health workers by October 2020.
Dr. Brown University. Abid students helped raise funds for the PPE to protect health workers in Bangladesh. The organization provides 10,000 KN-95 masks, pulse oximeters and asthma inhalers to healthcare workers in Bangladesh.
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.
According to the Nobel Prize website, the winner of the 2020 prize nominees will be announced next October.
(Padma Parmita contributed to this article in The Daily Star).
