Tag: Yusuf Hamied
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Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I’ve been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, ‘Let’s look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients’ unnecessary suffering.’
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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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.
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Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can’t afford monopolies.
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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.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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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.
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