Story of Cipla founder - Hameed

Story of Cipla founder Hameed

Khwaja Hameed established Chemical, Industrial and Cipla Pharmaceutical Laboratories in the year 1935.  A few decades after independence, it became known as CIPLA Cipla.  The same company produces hydroxychloroquine which is used in the treatment of malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.  Kneeling in front of a threat from the Trump administration, it has now been snatched away from poor Indians and exported to America in large numbers.  When there was a confrontation with the US over one such generic drug, the then Prime Minister refused to kneel and stood with Cipla. Here is the story of Cipla founder Hameed.

Story of Cipla founder Hameed

At a time when some media groups and a section of the Bharatiya Janata Party devotees are creating an atmosphere of hatred against Muslims by posing as vampires, this story will bring relief to many hearts.

It is the year 1920. A rich man sent his son to ship a ship from Bombay to the United Kingdom to study acquittal. At that time this practice was prevalent among the most prosperous families in the country. But the boy's heart was entangled not in the study of law but in chemical science, in which those days had no future.

But this boy's father had no choice left before him. However, when the ship left the langar from the port, Khwaja Abdul Hameed stood on the deck shaking his hand to bid farewell to the father, and another panic ensued. They landed on the coast of Germany in the middle of this ship, a pioneer in the field of the study of chemistry in the early decades of the last century. He obtained a degree from there and married a German Jewish and Communist girl (both of whom the Nazis hated the most). The two safely arrived in India from Germany before Adolf Hitler captured the Gestapo.

Khwaja Hameed established chemical, industrial and pharmaceutical laboratories in the year 1935 with a broad understanding of chemicals. A few decades after independence, this acronym is known by CIPLA Cipla.

Khwaja Hameed was a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and with a true passion for nationalism, he started producing generic medicines for the common man and selling them at very low prices. These included not only medicines for malaria and tuberculosis, but also other medicines for respiratory problems, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis.

Sometime around 1970, Cipla (it was renamed in 1980) began production of a claim called propranolol. It was already patented from a large US pharmaceutical company, Brooklyn, New York. This medicine was used in the treatment of blood pressure, migraine, heart disease and other problems. At that time, America was not a friendly country of India in a divided world and was in fact a superpower. Like Donald Trump, he did not need to threaten any country in the world to get his voice out.

The US complained to the Indian government in this matter. But then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi did not kneel before him, as did Narendra Modi last week. Rather Indira Gandhi sent Khwaja Hameed's son Yusuf Hameed, who by that time was a graduate in chemistry from Cambridge and was handling the company's business. He called Joseph to explain how he could endanger the country by violating international patent law. At this, Yusuf narrated the story of his father to Mrs Gandhi and how he set up the company to provide better quality medicines at affordable prices to ordinary Indians.

Handing over the charge of the company to his son Yusuf, Khwaja said that he was instructed to always remember the purpose for which this company was set up. “Like other pharmaceutical companies of the world, we do not run this company to make profits, but our aim is to provide relief to the poor by healthy services. These people can die in the absence of good and cheap medicines. "

Yusuf told Indira Gandhi that he is making this claim for this purpose. Impressed by this logic, Indira Gandhi, knowing that its consequences would not be easy, refused to obey the US order to stop India from making this claim. Indira Gandhi was disliked by the US government for keeping in mind the interests of her countrymen and disobeying American orders.

Not only this, in keeping with Yusuf's suggestion, Indira Gandhi also changed the patent law, under which the process of production should not be infringed on, rather than merely a patent of medicine. This allowed Cipla to produce a number of high quality generic drugs and made them available to people at a lower cost. Since then, Cipla, along with many other medicines, has made HIV drugs affordable and has expanded its operations to many developing countries, including many African countries. These include the countries where the poorest and HIV patients were present at one time.

It is the company that produces hydroxychloroquine, which is used in the treatment of malaria, lupus and rheumatism, now stripped of poor Indians, kneeling in front of threats from the foolish Trump administration. Large numbers have been exported to the US.

Before Trump started pressuring the Indian government for this drug, the infectious disease specialist at Mumbai's Saifee Hospital, Dr. Hamiduddin Pardwala told some of us to look at countries where there is a history of malaria and possibly tuberculosis, there will not be corona virus. It has the same effect as those countries which do not have these diseases.

Where did malaria not exist? USA, United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, Spain, Canada, etc. are the countries where maximum corona infection was found. When I think of Germany, it is understood that today all the countries are thankful to India that from here they are exporting Hydroxychloroquine, what all these countries would have been doing at this time if Khwaja Hameed and his wife Hitler's guestpo would have been captured and sent to a concentration camp!

And with more vigor, I want to ask this question to all the fundamentalists of this country who have given communal color to the disease by creating a diabolical image of the Muslim community. Many people who have ever had malaria and have been given doses of hydroxychloroquine have developed some immunity to their bodies that they are able to resist Kovid-19. Many of these people will have to undergo treatment with the medicine made by this company if they are infected. They may not even know which generic medicines would be controlled by a Muslim-founded company, and how many would be indebted to Hameed for the treatment of diabetes!

Instead of going into too many details, I would like to call it poetic justice. Not only in India, there is probably no company in the world who, like Cipla, would have worked towards bringing health services to the poor. Not only this, it also does not skimp in sharing its research with other companies. Cipla also provides materials and processes to other pharmaceutical companies in the country, so that they can produce medicines on their own.

At the time of partition of the country, Muhammad Ali Jinnah used to rise in the same social groups in which Khwaja Hameed was known and he requested Hameed to go to Pakistan. But Hameed knew that he was in favor of Gandhi and decided to stay in India.

Courtesy - drohkaal