Although half the people I meet in North America do not know where or what Bangladesh is, my decision to come here was an easy one. You see, I am a Bangladeshi by birth. I was born and raised right here in Dhaka, until one day, more than 8 years ago, my parents decided to immigrate to Toronto. And so when I was debating where I can spend the "last summer of my life" I was naturally pulled to Dhaka, Bangladesh. Today is Thursday, and I just completed my first week at icddr,b. icddr,b (or International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) is a hospital that opened its doors in 1962 and ever since then has provided lifesaving care at no cost to the patients. Bangladesh, if you didn't know already, is a developing country and is riddled with all the problems that comes with that title. It is, thus, not surprising that cholera is still an ongoing problem. Indeed, there is a cholera epidemic going on right now (the pre-monsoon epidemic).
