[2] Modi co-founded Cadila Laboratories in 1951 along with his childhood friend Raman Patel to offer cheaper drugs in India.
He graduated in Bachelor of Science, Baroda College in 1948[citation needed] and came down to Bombay for higher studies.
[5] Modi, in 1952, quit his job and established Cadila Laboratories with his close friend, Ramanbhai Patel, a pharmacy professor.
They pooled in their resources to start making vitamins to treat Anemia, a disease prevalent in India at that time.
[7] She would wash and label the product herself from a 3-room apartment in Azad Society that was taken on rent for Cadila Laboratories.
Under this, he set up a 30-bed hospital in the village of Hansot to provide modern healthcare facilities to those who cannot afford it at one-third of the original rates.