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Day after Magsaysay Award, Bangladeshi vaccine scientist Dr Firdausi Qadri loses husband Salehin Qadri
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Day after Magsaysay Award, Bangladeshi vaccine scientist Dr Firdausi Qadri loses husband

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 01 Sep 2021, 09:39 pm

Dhaka, September 1: A day after winning the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Bangladeshi vaccine scientist Dr Firdausi Qadri has lost her husband Prof Dr Salehin Qadri on Wednesday.

Dr Qadri is the emeritus scientist at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b).

On Wednesday (September 1) morning, Tarif Hasan, media manager of icddr, b, said that Professor Salehin Qadri had been ill for some time. He had recovered after being infected with coronavirus. He died at Universal Medical College Hospital in the capital at 4.30 am today.

Professor Salehin Qadri was a teacher in the Department of Biochemistry at Dhaka University. Funeral prayers will be held at Azad Mosque in Gulshan after noon today. He is to be buried at Banani graveyard.