DHAKA, Oct 5, 2021 (BSS) - Dr Tahmeed Ahmed, Executive Director of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) and members of its senior leadership team today paid homage to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his portrait at the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in capital's Dhanmandi.

  After paying tributes to Bangabandhu, Dr Tahmeed Ahmed and the team visited the historic residence of Father of the Nation at Dhanmondi Road No. 32, Dhaka.

  icddr,b's Senior Director, Maternal and Child Health Division and member of the National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 Dr Shams El Arifeen, Acting Director, Laboratory Science and Services Division Dr Dinesh Mondal, Director, Human Resources Hugues-Marie Bello, Director, Finance Thomas Liam Barry, Controller, Finance Annrita Muthoni Mugambi, Acting Lead, Research Administration Armana Ahmed were present, among others, during the visit.

  During the visit, Dr Tahmeed Ahmed said, "I remember our colleagues remembering the day when the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman instructed a team of doctors of icddr,b to investigate an unknown outbreak that occurred in Saint Martin's island in April 1973".

  "icddr,b is indebted for the compassionate and visionary leadership of the Father of the Nation for entrusting us to fight the severe dysentery outbreak that ravaged the community," he added.