Hi,
In one of the by lanes of the historic old Delhi, a small Unani clinic came into being in the year of 1906. Housed in a few rooms on one side of a spacious courtyard built around a sparkling fountain, the clinic was a modest effort aimed at reviving, invigorating and improving the ancient system of Unani medicine and therapeutics.
The man behind it was Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed, one of the well known Unani practitioners of his day. The idea uppermost in the crusading Hakeem’s mind was to break away from the old tradition of each practitioner making drugs and specific from his own closely guarded formulations and selling them exclusively to his patients.
Hakeem Abdul Hameed
Hakeem Abdul Hameed
Hakeem Abdul Majeed wanted a larger number of people to benefit from the time-tested efficacy of Unani medicines and thought it necessary to manufacture Unani drugs on a bigger scale to achieve his end.
It is not at all surprising, therefore, that the name he gave to his fledgling venture was “Hamdard”, meaning ‘sympathy for all and sharing of pain’.
Sure enough, Hamdard began to flourish and prosper and its name became synonymous with integrity and high quality in the field of relatively inexpensive Unani medicines.
Sadly Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed (d.1922) did not live long enough to see the flowering of his dream into the multidimensional and internationally known organization that it was to become in the competent hands of his illustrious son- Hakeem Abdul Hameed.
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4:25 PM on March 12, 2013
