Dr CP Thakur conferred with WHO lifetime achievement award

PATNA: Senior BJP leader and Rajya Sabha member Dr CP Thakur received the WHO lifetime achievement award for his contributions in the treatment and cure of dreaded disease Kala-azar in the Spanish city of Toledo on Saturday.

The WorldLeish 6 Congress Organising Committee, which selected Dr Tahkaur, who is renowned physician, for this coveted World Health Organisation (WHO) award, gave away the award in its 6th world congress in Toledo.

Dr Thakur, a former union minister, also addressed the conference on Leishmaniasis and his research papers on Kala-azar.

Meanwhile, BJP state working committee member Sanjeev Kumar Mishra congratulated Dr Thakur for his feat.

He said Dr Thakur was the first Indian to receive the WHO lifetime achievement award.

Dr CP Thakur gets WHO Life Time Achievement Award

Patna: Former Union Minister and senior BJP leader and also the Rajya Sabha member Dr CP Thakur has been nominated for the World Health Organisation Life Time Achievement Award for his research works on Kala-azar (Black fever).

The award will be given to him at Worldleish 6 Congress to be held in Toledo (Spain) on May 16.

Dr Thakur will be the first medical scientist from India who is selected for this prestigious award.

He will also participate in the five-day conference and deliver lectures on latest research on Kala-azar and the techniques to fight with this dreaded fever.

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