09:55 QUALITY HEALTH<00593> - Announcement (3) Total: 216,672,884 100 195,005,596 100 After the completion of the Offer, Wah Cheong has become a controlling shareholder (as defined under the Listing Rules) of the Company since its holding in Shares exceeds 30%. PUBLIC FLOAT Notwithstanding completion of the Offer, the percentage of Shares held in public hands will remain above the minimum prescribed percentage of 25% stipulated in Rule 8.08 of the Listing Rules. DESPATCH AND COLLECTION OF CHEQUES AND SHARE CERTIFICATES It is expected that, on or before 16 April 2005, the Registrar will despatch cheques for amounts payable to successful Accepting Shareholders in respect of valid acceptances under the Offer (after deducting the seller's stamp duty due on the repurchase of the relevant Shares from the amount payable in cash) and/or any share certificate(s) representing Shares which were not accepted under the Offer. In case of any Accepting Shareholder where the number of Shares represented by the share certificate(s) and/or transfer receipt(s) and/or any other document(s) of title sent in connection with his Form of Acceptance to the Registrar in acceptance of the Offer exceeded 50,000, such Shareholder may contact the Registrar directly to arrange for collection in person at the Registrar's office of the remittance due to him in respect of the Shares accepted under the Offer (after deducting the seller's stamp duty due on the repurchase of the relevant Shares from the amount payable in cash) and/or any share certificate(s) representing Shares which were not successfully tendered and/or accepted under the Offer. However, if no such prior arrangement is made with the Registrar, the Registrar will send by ordinary post on or before 16 April 2005 the remittance and/or any share certificate(s) to such Shareholder at his risk. ODD LOTS ARRANGEMENT Sun Hung Kai Investment Services Limited (address: Level 12, One Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong; contact person: Ms. Connie Cheung Sau Lin; telephone 2822 5075) has been appointed by the Company as the designated broker to match sales and purchases of odd lot holdings of Shares in the market during the period from 8 April 2005 to 20 May 2005 (both days inclusive) to enable odd lot Shareholders to dispose of their odd lots or to top up their odd lots to whole board lots of 2,000 Shares. Odd lot Shareholders should note that the matching of odd lots is not guaranteed. ENQUIRIES HOTLINE Should any Qualifying Shareholder require any assistance or have any queries regarding the despatch of cheques and/or the return of share certificates as mentioned above, the Shareholder may contact the Registrar at its hotline at (852) 2980 1333 from now on up to and inclusive of Friday, 15 April 2005 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. (Hong Kong time) from Monday to Friday (other than public holidays). RESPONSIBILITY STATEMENT The Directors jointly and severally accept full responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in this announcement and confirm, having made all reasonable enquiries, that to the best of their knowledge, opinions expressed in this announcement have been arrived at after due and careful consideration and there are no other facts not contained in this announcement, the omission of which would make any statements in this announcement misleading. On behalf of the Board Quality HealthCare Asia Limited Mark Wong Tai Chun Executive Director Hong Kong, 7 April, 2005 As at the date of this announcement, the executive directors of the Company are Mr. Arthur George Dew, Dr. Lincoln Chee Wang Jin and Mr. Mark Wong Tai Chun, the non-executive directors of the Company are Mr. Richard Owen Pyvis and Mr. Brian Damian O'Connor and the independent non-executive directors of the Company are Mr. Li Chak Hung, Mr. Carlisle Caldow Procter and Mr. Chang Chu Fai Johnson Francis.