Australian cricketers visit ICDDR,B

Six Australian cricket players have visited International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) at Mahakhali in Dhaka city. Australia is one of the many donors of this Bangladesh-based research institute. ICDDR,B says the cricketers who are in Dhaka, playing the ICC World Twenty20, witnessed how "Australian taxpayers’ money is saving lives in Bangladesh and other emerging economies". ICDDD,B, known for its life-saving oral saline invention, says it has been receiving Australian support for over 50 years, and has developed "products, programmes and policies that are credited with saving at least 50 million lives worldwide". Aaron Finch, David Warner, Cameron White, Glenn Maxwell, Nathan Coulter-Nile and James Muirhead were the players who spent an hour at the Centre. Joined by Cricket Australia's Chief Medical Officer Justin Paoloni they also witnessed how patients with severe dehydration were being treated. James Muirhead termed his visit “really eye-opener” and said he was proud that Australian aid money was supporting the work of the centre, according to bdnews24.com.