Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh

Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh traces it origins to Hamdard India established in 1906 by Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed.[1][10] Majeed died in 1922 and his will mentioned the company be placed in Waqf management.[3] Ham means friend and dard means pain in Persian so the name means companion of pain.[11] In 1948, after the partition of India, his youngest son, Hakeem Mohammad Said established Hamdard Pakistan.[1] He established and expanded the company in East Pakistan in 1953 and 1956 respectively.[1][12] He opened up sales center in Chittagong and Dhaka.[1] After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, Hamdard Pakistan became Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh.[1][13]

Hamdard Laboratories (Waqf) Bangladesh operates a research institute.[1] It spends its entire profits through Hamdard Foundation Bangladesh, its charitable wing.[1] Hakim Md. Yousuf Harun Bhuiyan, who had joined the company in 1972, became the managing director in 1982.[14] In 1989, Hakim Mohammad Yousuf Harun Bhuiyan established Hamdard Foundation Bangladesh.[15] The foundation established Hamdard Unani Medical College and Hospital in 1990.[16]

The headquarters are located in Hamdard Bhaban at 291/1 Sonargaon Road in Gulistan and a factory in Tejgaon.[1] Hamdard Laboratories Bangladesh was established in 2004 and is located in Meghna Ghat, Sonargaon Upazila, Narayanganj District.[17] It was inaugurated by Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Minister of Health and Family Welfare.[18] In 2004 it provided relief materials to victims of flooding in Keraniganj and Manikganj.[19][20] Hakim Mohammad Yousuf Harun Bhuiyan estimated the market of herbal medicine to be 1 billion taka in 2005.[21]

Hakim Said Eastern Medical College & Hospital was established in 2008 by the Hamdard Foundation.[22] It also established Rawshan Jahan Eastern Medical College and Hospital in the same year.[23] it participated in the FOODEX Japan 2009.[24] It established 15 medical camps in Chittagong on Victory Day.[25] It is licensed by the Government of Bangladesh to produce herbal medicine.[26]

In 2010, Hamdard Foundation Bangladesh established Hamdard Public College.[27] It ran a health camp in Gaibandha District.[28]

Hamdard Foundation Bangladesh established Hamdard University Bangladesh on 29 November 2012.[29]

Hamdard Museum was established in January 2022.[30] Hamdard signed a memorandum of understanding with University of Dhaka.[31]

• Hamdard University Bangladesh[29]
• Hamdard Laboratories Bangladesh[17]
• Hakim Said Eastern Medical College & Hospital[22]
• Hamdard Unani Medical College and Hospital[16]
• Rawshan Jahan Eastern Medical College and Hospital[23]
• Hamdard Public College[27]
• Hamdard Shamachar[32]
• Hamdard TV[33]
• Rooh Afza[34]
• Hamdard Honey[35]