Yusuf Hamied Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Yusuf Hamied quotes and sayings page 2 (scientist). These are the last 9 out of 19 quotes we have.
“Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.”
“My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.”
“India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.”
“Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.”
“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 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.'”
“Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.”
“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.”
“I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.”
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