EDMONTON, Alberta, May 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Medical Services International Inc. (OTC:MSITF) is pleased to announce that it has increased its contracts in China. The Company is now supplying 18 separate hospitals in China the VScan HIV test kit. This is in addition to pharmaceutical companies, a large industrial company with in excess of 300,000 employees, one retail chain, and the Company expects to add another retail chain within 60 to 90 days. This group currently using the VScan test kit just represents the SE China area. The Companies' distributor has started to introduce the VScan products into northeast China and has been receiving a very positive response to the VScan test kits. As reported earlier the existing contracts represents in excess of 25 million US dollars in sales over a three year period. It is anticipated that the Company will be able to arrange additional contracts in northeast China that will add a further 3 to 4 million US dollars in sales from China. 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 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. DATASOURCE: Medical Services International Inc. CONTACT: Robert Talbot of Medical Services International Inc., +1-780-430-6363 Web site: http://www.medicalservicesintl.com/ http://www.minerva-biotech.com/

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