Zitat des Tages von Yusuf Hamied:
My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself.
Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
I want it to be said when I leave this world that 'he was not just a money-making machine.'
I do believe anybody manufacturing products for healthcare cannot regard it truly as a 100 per cent business: it is business plus a humanitarian approach to society because you are saving lives. You are playing with people's lives.
Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
