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OUTSTANDING CUTTING-EDGE TECHNOLOGY, HIGH-LEVEL EXPERTISE,
AND A WIDE SPECTRUM OF COMPLEX HEALTHCARE SERVICES

- NEW PLAYER IN THE DOMESTIC PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SECTOR
LIV DUNA MEDICAL CENTER LAUNCHES -

We are pleased and proud to announce that Liv Hospital Group, Turkey's market-leading private hospital chain, is taking over the operation of the Duna Medical Center, a key player in private healthcare. Operating under the new name Liv Duna Medical Center (Liv DMC) as the eighth member of the Liv Hospital Group, it will continue its existing achievements, opening a new, innovative era in the Hungarian market. The combination of Liv Hospital Group's experience in hospital management and health tourism, patient-centered services, globally recognized Hungarian medical knowledge, and healthcare technology brings the highest standards to Hungary and the European Union. As a result of the transaction, Liv Hospital Group will hold the management rights and implement a significant investment program to make Liv DMC a leading player in the Hungarian private healthcare market.

Liv Hospital Group, with nearly 30 years of hospital management and operational experience, is a major player in the Turkish private healthcare market and was also the leader in health tourism in 2022. Turkey is among the TOP5 defining players in world health tourism and a known and recognized health tourism destination.

Liv Hospital Group's hospitals, accredited by the Joint Commission International (JCI), provide outstanding quality healthcare to patients from all over the world with their scientific achievements, professional recognition, and awards, modern diagnostic and treatment technologies, and expert medical staff. The group's goal is for Liv Duna Medical Center to become the reference institution in the region and across Europe that meets the highest international standards within one to two years.

Liv DMC enters the Hungarian private healthcare market with a new, innovative, and unique concept. The existing facilities of the Duna Medical Center, which were designed and built as a hospital building in Hungary almost uniquely in recent times, provide an excellent foundation. The nearly 20,000 square meter, 12-story clinic serves outpatient care in every medical specialty, inpatient care with 7 well-equipped operating rooms, intensive care capabilities, and a 130-bed inpatient department at full capacity. By further developing existing services and introducing new ones, the emerging hospital becomes the most comprehensive service package provider in the Hungarian market, which will be outstandingly patient-centered, prevention-oriented, and holistic in approach. Additionally, a definite goal is to provide excellent opportunities for professional development to the doctors and healthcare professionals working there in a way that is quite unique in the field of private healthcare.

The goals of Liv DMC's management:

• To become the leading private healthcare institution in Hungary and the region, offering services on an ever-expanding palette in inpatient care, beyond a wide range of outpatient specialties.
• To provide outstandingly high-quality, highly technologized healthcare services in disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and aftercare.
• To achieve the highest patient safety in medical interventions where the availability of a 24/7 intensive care unit and in-house emergency care is of utmost importance.
• Holistic and preventive medical approach, outstanding patient-centeredness - while respecting the dignity of patients to the utmost.
• Comprehensive patient journey management - expert care for patients throughout the entire healthcare process, which includes organizing interdependent healthcare and convenience services, as well as regular information.
• Opinion-forming, medical research and educational institution operation - where the safe introduction and application of modern medical technologies and new approaches in initiatives and discoveries take place.
• Attraction, retention, and support of healthcare professionals in their professional development, providing outstanding career opportunities, training, scientific symposia, conferences, and university collaborations to transfer the highest level of professional experience.

In summary: The capital-strong, market-leading private healthcare and health tourism Turkish hospital network, Liv Hospital Group, has arrived in Hungary, taking over the operation of the Duna Medical Center - currently a significant private service provider. With the existing and incoming know-how, as well as the planned investments, Liv Duna Medical Center will become not only the market leader in Hungary but also a defining private hospital in the region and across Europe.

Background Information on Liv Hospital

MLP Care Health Group, providing 27 hospitals in 13 cities in Turkey, is a very strong regional player in healthcare. MLP Care, which has maintained its position for years as Turkey's most widespread healthcare service group with its Medical Park and Liv Hospital branded hospitals, aims to become a world reference organization with its scientific activities established since 1993:

• Its hospitals have international healthcare standards, modern medical technology, expert and academic medical personnel, and a patient-centered service approach with Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation.
• Liv Hospital hospitals annually welcome nearly 30,000 health tourism patients from 85 countries, offering personalized, multidisciplinary solutions in numerous specialties from prevention, diagnosis to the application of the latest technologies.
• Liv Hospital Group has an outstanding team of experts in the treatment of cancer, achieving exceptional results in the treatment of lung cancer, gynecological tumors, prostate cancer, and skin cancer with its robotic surgery infrastructure and special tumor surgery procedures. These surgeries, requiring experienced medical staff and special teamwork, make Liv Hospital Group a hospital chain of unique knowledge and ability at an international level.
• Liv Hospital Group conducts scientific research with Istinye University, where they conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and cancer treatment. The hospital chain's staff, committed to education and research development, successful doctors and professors, are among the employees of Istinye University.
• Thanks to the Regenerative Medicine Stem Cell Production and Application Center, established in the hospital according to GMP standards for the first time in Turkey, it offers a wide range of treatment solutions from cosmetic dermatology and aesthetic interventions to orthopedics, stubborn wounds, and burn injury treatments.
• Liv Hospital has the internationally recognized "Center of Excellence accreditation": according to the audit conducted by the Surgical Review Cooperation (SRC), it performs accredited healing activities in robotic surgery, colorectal surgery, and surgical branches related to obesity diseases.

Budapest, October 3, 2023.