Verified record
BBR-KAOG-JCLM · Evidence reviewed and adjudicated
Oral rehydration therapy, hailed as a great medical advance of the century
Research in Dhaka and Matlab helped prove the life-saving power of oral rehydration solution.
Record holdericddr,b (Cholera Research Laboratory)
Date achieved5 August 1978
Official statement
Clinical studies at the Cholera Research Laboratory in Dhaka (now icddr,b) in the 1960s and 70s helped establish oral rehydration solution for cholera and diarrhoea. In 1978 The Lancet called the discovery potentially the most important medical advance of the century.
Criteria met
- 01Original publication or announcement checked
- 02Confirmed by the recognising institution
- 03Dates cross-checked with archives
Related records
Verified record
Deepest bridge piling in the world
Steel piles driven up to 122 metres below the riverbed to hold a 6.15-kilometre span.
- Record holder
- Padma Multipurpose Bridge
- Mawa–Janjira, Munshiganj · Dhaka
Verified record
Largest vertical roller cement mill
An FLSmidth OK81-6 mill with an 8.08 m grinding table, commissioned in Munshiganj.
- Record holder
- Shah Cement Industries Ltd.
- Munshiganj, Dhaka Division · Dhaka
Verified record
First Bangladeshi communications satellite
Launched on a Falcon 9 rocket on 12 May 2018 (Bangladesh time).
- Record holder
- Bangabandhu Satellite-1
- Launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida · Dhaka