EDMONTON, Alberta, Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical Services International Services Inc. is pleased to announce that it has been asked to supply test kits to a private hospital in Anhui Province in China. This hospital does annual testing of employees for a steel processing company in Anhui Province. The Chinese company employs in excess of 300,000 people and requires that the employees be tested yearly for HIV, Hepatitis C and Tuberculosis (TB). Medical Services has also been asked to supply test kits for STDs which includes syphilis for which there is a VScan test kit. There are several other test kits being requested that Medical Services will be able to supply.
The Company anticipates that between the VScan kits that will be used as well as the other kits required that this contract should generate revenue of $1.3 to $1.5 million US per year. This will also allow our other sales networks in China to contact other large Chinese corporations and offer the same testing program.
About VScan
The VScan rapid test kit is a single use, disposable, accurate, cost effective, easy to use, test for the screening of HIV 1&2, Hepatitis B&C, Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue Fever, West Nile, Syphilis, Malaria and Prostate Cancer. The kits cannot be sold in Canada.
Medical Services International Inc. trades in the United States on the NQB Pinksheets under the symbol “MSITF”. For further information, please contact Robert Talbot at (780) 430 6363 or media contact Bill Whitehead at (416) 822 5883 or http://www.medicalservicesintl.com or http://www.minerva-biotech.com .
NOTE: Certain statements in this press release are “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause results to differ materially. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include but are not limited to new economic conditions, risk in product development, market acceptance of new products and continuing product demand, level of competition and other factors described in Company reports and other filings with regulatory bodies.
Medical Services International Inc.
Medical Services International Inc.
CONTACT: Robert Talbot, +1-780-430-6363, or Bill Whitehead,+1-416-822-5883, both for Medical Services International Inc.
