MVH medic vision limited

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    End of Quarter Update
    Melbourne, January 30 2009 - The Board of Medic Vision Limited (the “Board”)

    (“Medic Vision” or the “Company”) (AIM: MVH), is pleased to update the market
    on our achievements over the last quarter.

    The Board believes that the last three months has seen rapid development of
    the Company’s plan to deploy medical and surgical education through a global
    network of training centers.


    India
    In India, the Company has signed a binding heads of terms agreement, with
    Apollo Hospital Enterprise Ltd, to establish a joint venture company (the “JV”) to
    develop and deploy training centres throughout India and other parts of the
    world. Significant work has taken place on the Chennai site with the building
    works well underway, due for completion in mid 2009. In the interim, training
    courses, staffing, equipment and marketing processes are being planned,
    sourced and deployed. A Medic Vision representative will be placed onsite in
    India over the coming weeks to oversee the finalization of the building works
    and the completion and execution of the JV agreement. The Board is pleased
    with the progress to date and is confident that management will be successful in
    establishing, during the course of 2009, the generation of continuous revenue
    through the running of medical and surgical training courses in India.


    China
    As reported last year, the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China
    (the “PRC”) announced a plan, estimated by the PRC’s State Council to have a
    cost of 850 million yuan (US$123 million), to reform the health care system and
    provide a national level of healthcare to all of its 1.3 billion citizens by 2011,
    meaning that in excess of 1.2 million doctors will need to be trained to a national
    level of competency similar to other western countries.
    Medic Vision is strategically well placed to play a key role in training these
    doctors as part of this reform program. In preparation for this opportunity, the
    Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese
    Medical Doctors Association in December 2008 to provide western clinical and
    surgical skills training and to develop a competency based evaluation system
    throughout the PRC. Medic Vision will deploy training courses to western
    standards in the PRC to align itself to the opportunity presented by these
    reforms, which the Board expects to commence in Q2 2009, initially at the
    Macau University of Science and Technology. The Board is targeting rolling out
    further training courses in Guangzhou, Chongqing and Beijing over the
    remainder of 2009 and 2010.

    The Board anticipates that the initial PRC rollout will utilize existing fully
    equipped training centres, which, in most cases will have been fitted out by
    Medic Vision, and the Company will then continue to roll out training centres
    across the PRC and other areas in Asia.


    Red Paragon
    In January 2009, Medic Vision announced the acquisition of a controlling interest
    (87.5 per cent.) of Red Paragon Pty Ltd (“Red Paragon”) (the “Acquisition”) an
    Australian incorporated private company specializing in the manufacture of low
    cost, lightweight, building panels for construction of modular buildings. The Board
    views the acquisition as a strategic development for Medic Vision, as Red
    Paragon brings an essential building product skill set that is well suited for the
    planned large volume rapid roll out of skills training centres in India, the PRC and
    other parts of the world. The Board believes that the Red Paragon product is
    highly suited to this project because of its affordability and capacity to be
    environmentally friendly, recyclable and rapidly assembled structurally high
    quality, whilst only requiring limited relatively unskilled labour.

    UK
    Activity in the UK has seen the completion of Torbay Skills Centre - CITEC (The
    Centre of Innovation and Training in Elective Care), which will officially open
    later this year. Further progress has been made with the marketing of Medic
    Vision as a total service provider in the management of skills centres in the UK
    with a strong number of prospective clients in negotiation for the Company to
    manage their centres. The Board expects to make further announcements,
    regarding developments in the UK, later this year.


    Simulators
    In addition to the planned rollout of training courses, significant simulator sales
    were made in Australia to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons for an
    assessment study on the use of simulators for basic surgical skills training
    surgical simulators and to the University of Armidale. The value of the combined
    sales equates to A$472,000. In addition, a number of simulator sales were
    made in the UK with a value of c. £133,000 (A$289,000), including the first

    Temporal Bone Simulator sale in the northern hemisphere.
    Corporate
    The Company is also pleased to have appointed Strand Partners Limited and St
    Helens Capital plc in the UK to represent Medic Vision as its Nomad and
    corporate advisor and Broker respectively. The Board believes that this will give
    the Company greater exposure to potential investors and strategic partners in
    both the UK and Europe.
    Within the quarter the Company decided to outsource its Company Secretarial
    duties to Mertons Corporate Services, thus reducing corporate costs.
    The Board expects to announce its audited interim results, covering the six
    months to 31 December 2008, in late February 2009.

    Conclusion
    The Board believes the next six months will be a critical time in the development
    of the Company in its strategic plan of deploying and operating skills training
    centres globally. The Board and staff are highly motivated to position the
    Company as a complete service provider in medical skills training and education
    market throughout the world and the Board believes that further progress has
    been made by the Company in the last three months towards this goal.


    The Board and staff would like to take this opportunity thank our shareholders
    for maintaining their long term vision, strong support and continued loyalty,
    particularly during these globally difficult economic times.
    We look forward to updating the market on our progress in the coming months.


    On behalf of the Board
    Ross Horley
    Managing Director
    Medic Vision Limited
 
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