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ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

23 April 2013, Moscow, Russia - MD Medical Group Investments Plc ("MD Medical Group", "MDMG" or the "Company" - LSE: MDMG), Russia's leading provider of private women's and children's healthcare, announces that at a meeting on April 23rd, 2013 the Board of Directors of MD Medical Group Investments Plc called an Annual General Meeting of shareholders to be held at Poseidon Conference room, Amathus Beach Hotel, Amathus Avenue, Limassol, Cyprus on 7 June 2013 at 10 a.m. (Cyprus time), to consider and, if thought fit, pass resolutions 1 to 12, being items of ordinary business as follows:

1. To receive and consider the consolidated financial statements of the Company for the financial year ended 31 December 2012, together with the reports of the directors and independent auditors.

2. To re-appoint KPMG Limited as auditors of the Company, to hold office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company and to authorize the Board of Directors to determine the remuneration of the auditors.

3. To re-appoint Mr. Apollon Athanasiades as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company with an annual gross remuneration of EUR 2,000.

4. To re-appoint Mr. Kirill Dmitriev as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2016, with an annual gross remuneration of USD 100,000.

5. To re-appoint Dr. Kurtser as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2016, without any remuneration.

6. To re-appoint Dr. Elena Mladova as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2016, without any remuneration.

7. To re-appoint Ms. Elia Nicolaou as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, with an annual gross remuneration of EUR 2,000.

8. To re-appoint Mr. Angelos Paphitis as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company with an annual gross remuneration of EUR 4,000.

9. To re-appoint Mr. Andreas Petrides as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, with an annual gross remuneration of EUR 4,000.

10. To re-appoint Mr. Simon Rowlands as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the annual general meeting of the Company to be held in 2016, with an annual gross remuneration of GBP 90,000.

11. To re-appoint Mr. Marios Tofaros as a director of the Company, to hold such office until the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company, with an annual gross remuneration of EUR 3,000.

12. To approve the dividend, out of the profits made during the year 2012, in the amount of 0.13 USD per share, as proposed in the directors' report.

Subject to shareholders' approval of the dividend at the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Company, the dividend record date is set as 7 June 2013. The Global Depository Receipts will be marked as ex-dividend on 5 June 2013. The pay date for GDR holders is set as 12 June 2013.

Annex to the Notice of Annual General Meeting:

Brief biographies of the candidates for the Board of Directors

Apollon Athanasiades

Mr. Athanasiades was appointed as an executive director in August 2012. He is currently a Director at Amicorp (Cyprus) Ltd mainly dealing with business structuring, a position he has held since April 2010. He previously held positions in the internal audit department of Louis PLC and worked in compliance and finance at PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd (Cyprus), A.N. Athanasiades & Co. (Cyprus) and Messrs Auerbach Hope (UK). He holds a BA in Accounting, Finance and Economics from the University of Manchester and is a qualified accountant.

Kirill Dmitriev

Mr. Dmitriev is CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a $10 billion fund established by the Russian government to make equity investments primarily in the Russian economy. Before being asked by the Russian government to run the fund, he was president of Icon Private Equity and co-managing partner and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners. Previously Dmitriev was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in New York and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Mr Dmitriev holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Mark Kurtser

Dr. Kurtser is the founder of MD Medical Group and became Chairman in August 2012. Dr Kurtser began his career as a graduate assistant to the associate professor at the obstetrics and gynaecology department of the Pirogov Medical University. From 1994 to 2012, was Head of the Family Planning and Reproductive Centre, the largest public obstetrics hospital in Moscow. Since 2003, Dr Kurtser has been the Chief Obstetrician and Gynaecologist of the City of Moscow. He holds a degree in medicine from Pirogov Medical University in addition to a postdoctoral degree in medicine. Dr Kurtser remains actively involved in the Group's healthcare practice and day-to-day operations.

Elena Mladova

Dr. Mladova joined the Board of Directors in August 2012 having been appointed as Chief Executive Officer earlier in the year. She joined the Group in 2008 as Head of the Infertility Treatment and IVF Department at PMC, where she was responsible for the introduction of various infertility and IVF treatments. Previously, Dr Mladova worked as an obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Family Planning and Reproductive Centre in Moscow. She graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in primary care medicine.

Elia Nicolaou

Ms. Nicolaou was appointed as an executive director in August 2012. She also acts as the company secretary. Ms Nicolaou is currently the Managing Director and Director of Legal and Corporate Services at Amicorp (Cyprus) Ltd. Previously, Ms Nicolaou worked as the head of the corporate legal department at Polakis Sarris LLC and as a lawyer at C. Patsalides LLC. She is a member of the board of directors and audit committees of Globaltrans Investment Plc and company secretary of Globaltrans Investment Plc. She also sits on various boards of the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce. She holds a master's degree in commercial and corporate law from University College London and an MBA from the Cyprus International Institute of Management.

Angelos Paphitis

Mr. Paphitis was appointed as a non-executive director in April 2013. He is an attorney at law, Founder and Managing Director of the Law Firm, A G Paphitis & Co LLC. Angelos holds a Master's degree on Commercial & Corporate Law (LLM) from University College London, of the University of London; he is qualified as a Barrister-at-Law in England and Wales (member of Gray's Inn), and he was admitted to the Cyprus Bar Association in 2004. Angelos specialises on Company law and Corporate advisory, Financial Services Advisory, International Tax Planning and Trusts, and has experience in corporate structuring, M&A, dispute resolution and litigation, Property law and IP, and Foreign Investment law in Cyprus and abroad.

Andreas Petrides

Mr. Petrides was appointed as a non-executive director in April 2013. He is the Managing Director of the ASG Premier Audit Services Limited. Prior to joining ASG, he was Senior Supervisor at KPMG. He has a Masters in Management - Concentration in Finance from the University of Arizona and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He has experience in acting as the external auditor of public companies in various industries. In addition he specialises in local and international tax planning as well as in investment and corporate valuation.

Simon Rowlands

Mr. Rowlands was appointed as an independent non-executive director in September 2012. His other current appointments include non-executive directorships at Spire Healthcare, Avio and Enserve. Mr Rowlands is a Founding Partner of European private equity firm Cinven Partners where he established and led the healthcare team and was involved in a number of transactions including General Healthcare Group, Spire Healthcare and Classic Hospitals in the UK, USP in Spain and Générale de Santé in France. In July 2012, Mr Rowlands became Senior Adviser at Cinven. Prior to joining Cinven, Mr Rowlands worked with an international consulting firm on multi-disciplinary engineering projects in the UK and southern Africa. He has an MBA in Business, a BSc in engineering and is a chartered engineer. 

Marios Tofaros

Mr. Tofaros was appointed as an executive director in August 2012. He is currently a director of the client accounting department of Amicorp (Cyprus) Ltd., a position he has held since 2008. Previously, Mr. Tofaros held the positions of financial accountant at Depfa Investment Bank Ltd from 2004 until 2008 and financial officer at Louis Catering Ltd from 2003 to 2004. Prior to that, he held various positions in the audit department at KPMG Cyprus. Mr. Tofaros holds a Master's degree in business studies from the University of Kent and is a chartered certified accountant.

ENDS

About MD Medical Group

MD Medical Group operates in the highly attractive Russian private healthcare service market and has a leading position in high-quality women's health and paediatrics. The company manages ten modern healthcare facilities, including two hospitals and eight outpatient clinics in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa and Perm. In addition, two franchised outpatient clinics operate in Kyiv and one franchised outpatient clinic in Irkutsk.

The Company's main medical facilities are the Perinatal Medical Center (PMC), a 250-bed medical centre, which opened its doors in 2006, and Lapino hospital, a 182-bed medical centre, which opened at the end of 2012. In 2012, there were 3,253 deliveries in PMC and Lapino. The number of outpatient treatments for 2012 in PMC and the Company's outpatient clinics totalled 446,407. In March 2013, the Company began construction of its third hospital in Ufa.

The Company's shares have been listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE ticker "MDMG") in the form of Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) since 12 October 2012.

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Forward-Looking Statements:

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