| GE Healthcare, the healthcare business of General | | | | "Home Healthcare is largely untapped, while at the |
| Electric Company, forays into the home | | | | same time, a fast growing market in India. This |
| healthcare market in India through the introduction | | | | global acquisition is consistent with GE's strategy |
| of sleep care and home respiratory care solutions, | | | | to invest in high technology, innovative businesses |
| that are added through acquisition of Vital Sign. | | | | that deliver top-line growth and earnings |
| The home health solutions are added through | | | | expansion. This acquisition takes us one step |
| acquisition of Vital Signs Inc and its subsidiary | | | | closer to our vision – “Early Health”. It |
| Breas Medical AB. | | | | is a strong, strategic fit and allows us to address |
| Vital Signs is a provider of medical products | | | | the individual patient directly, for the first time. |
| applicable to a wide range of care areas such as | | | | This is our first foray into home health in |
| anesthesia, respiratory, sleep therapy and | | | | India,” said Mr V Raja, President and CEO, GE |
| emergency medicine. Vital Signs has a broad | | | | Healthcare South Asia. |
| product portfolio of innovative single-patient use | | | | "At GE Healthcare we are very pleased to |
| products which offer significant cost advantages | | | | enter the home health and sleep care market. As |
| and improved patient care features, including | | | | a company we look for strategic ways to |
| reducing the likelihood of transmitting infections | | | | strengthen the breadth and depth of our product |
| from one patient to another. Single patient-use | | | | portfolio in response to customers needs. |
| technologies contribute to a reduction in patient | | | | Moreover, now with our iSleep products, we |
| mortality through limiting hospital-acquired | | | | continue to provide clinicians solutions for better |
| infections. Vital Signs products will highly | | | | patient care with the aim to improve patient |
| complement GE Healthcare’s leading | | | | quality of life," said Mr S Ganesh Prasad, Vice |
| anesthesia delivery, patient monitoring and acute | | | | President – Clinical Systems, GE Healthcare, |
| respiratory offerings. | | | | India. |