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Premaitha Health plc

("Premaitha" or the "Company")

Annual Report and Accounts and Notice of AGM

Manchester, UK - 30 September 2016 - Premaitha Health plc (AIM: NIPT), developer of the leading CE-marked complete non-invasive prenatal screening system, announces that its Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2016 and Notice of Annual General Meeting ("AGM") have today been posted to shareholders and are available on the Company's website: http://www.premaitha.com/.

Premaitha's AGM will be held at 2.00 p.m. on Thursday, 27 October 2016 at Greenheys Building, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester M15 6JJ.

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About Premaitha

Premaitha is a molecular diagnostics company which uses the latest advances in DNA analysis technology to develop safer, faster and regulatory approved non-invasive screening tests for pregnant women.

Premaitha's lead test - the IONA® test - was launched in February 2015 and is the leading CE marked complete system which estimates the risk of a fetus being affected with Down's syndrome or other genetic conditions. The IONA® test is performed on the mother's blood sample - which contains traces of fetal DNA - and then analysed using next generation DNA sequencing technology from ThermoFisher Scientific.

Unlike existing prenatal screening methods, due to its high level of accuracy, the IONA® test can significantly reduce the number of women subjected to unnecessary stressful and invasive follow-up diagnostic procedures which are costly, resource intensive and carry a risk of miscarriage.

Non-invasive prenatal screening is an emerging, multi-billion dollar global market and Premaitha's complete CE marked system enables laboratories and health care practitioners to offer an approved, non-invasive prenatal screening system in-house. 

Premaitha is based in Manchester Science Park, United Kingdom and its shares trade on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM: NIPT). For further information please visit www.premaitha.com. Follow us on twitter @PremaithaHealth.