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Medical Services to
Deliver the VScan HIV Test Kits to Drug Testing and Rehabilitation
Centers
February 3,
2005
Medical Services International Inc (Pinksheets: MSITF) is pleased to
announce that it will begin supplying Drug Testing and
Rehabilitation Centers in the Peoples Republic of China with its VScan
HIV rapid test kits.
It was previously announced that Drug testing and Rehabilitation
Centers in China were testing the VScan HIV test kit. Regulatory
approval of the VScan HIV test kits, combined with the exceptional
performance of the VScan test kit in the Centers has resulted in the
Rehabilitation Centers placing orders for the VScan HIV test kits. The
initial orders are being placed by the Centers that participated in
the testing program. These centers are recommending that all drug
testing centers use the VScan HIV test kit as an initial screening
tool prior to admittance the Centers.
There is no other HIV rapid test kits that test for both HIV1&2 that
have received regulatory approval in China. The Company is in an
excellent position to exclusively supply these Centers. The Kits were
found by the staff to be easy to use and do not require refrigeration
which means that there was no need for special storage facilities for
the test kits. It is reasonable to expect that the Drug Testing and
Rehabilitation Center will require up to 500,000 test kits in the
first year. These kits will be supplied by the Shanghai facility.
About VScan ™
The VScan™
rapid test kit is a single use, easy to use, test for the screening of
HIV 1&2, Hepatitis B&C, Tuberculosis (TB), Dengue Fever and West Nile
and Syphilis. The kits cannot be sold in Canada.
For further information contact:
Robert Talbot at 780-430-6363 or
Bill Whitehead, Jr., 416-822-5883
Medical Services International Inc. trades in the United States on the
NQB Pinksheets under the symbol "MSITF". |