Capio announces that it has today purchased a total of 4,025,750 CHG Shares

Capio announces that it has today purchased a total of 4,025,750 CHG Shares at a price of 665 pence per CHG Share. Capio has made a cash offer for CHG at the 26th of April 2001. Capio now owns, or has received irrevocable undertakings to accept the Offer, over a total of 17,822,889 CHG Shares representing 50.1 per cent of the existing issued share capital of CHG. For more information about the Offer see the press release distributed 26th of April. Can be downloaded at www.capio.se . Gothenburg, Sweden 27 April 2001 Capio AB (publ) For further information, please contact: Martin Svalstedt, CFO +46 705 11 11 36 Ulrika Stenson, Vice President Corporate Communications +46 705 90 07 23 Capio provides services in the areas of healthcare, diagnostics and elderly care. Customers are mainly county councils, municipalities and companies. Capio's care units, which have contracts with county councils and municipalities, offer their patients care services on identical conditions to those found in the public sector, in terms of fees and queue systems. Capio, which has annual net revenues of SEK 3.6 billion, is listed on the "O" List of the Stockholmsbörsen. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by BIT http://www.bit.se The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/04/27/20010427BIT01780/bit0002.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2001/04/27/20010427BIT01780/bit0002.pdf