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Professor Dr. Alpert Medical School at Brown University in the United States. Ruhul Abid and his non-profit organization Health and Education for All (Haifa) have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jean-Philippe Belleau, a professor of anthropology at Boston University in Massachusetts, confirmed the news.
Among the 211 people nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Abid is one.
Dr. Abid graduated from Dhaka School of Medicine and has a PhD in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Japan. He later completed a fellowship from Harvard Medical School in 2001. He is also an executive member of the Brown Global Health Initiative.
His non-profit organization, Haifa, provides free healthcare to the underprivileged in Bangladesh. In the past three years, the company has provided free medical services to some 30,000 garment workers.
Cervical cancer screening and treatment for some 9,000 disadvantaged women and garment workers and free medical care for more than 1,500 people in the Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.
The agency is currently training two Rohingya refugee camps in the prevention of corona infection.
After the collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013. Abid founded Haifa to provide medical care to garment workers across the country. At that time, Dr. Harvard Medical School. Together with Rosemary Dudar, he provided free medical care to garment workers in three factories in Dhaka, Gazipur and Sreepur.
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.
BA / JIM
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