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MEDICLINIC INTERNATIONAL PLC - Announcement of the annual general meeting poll results

Release Date: 26/07/2017 08:30
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Announcement of the annual general meeting poll results

Mediclinic International plc
(Incorporated in England and Wales)
Company Number: 08338604
LSE Share Code: MDC
JSE Share Code: MEI
NSX Share Code: MEP
ISIN: GB00B8HX8Z88
LEI: 2138002S5BSBIZTD5I60
(“Mediclinic”, the “Company” or the “Group”)

26 July 2017

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING POLL RESULTS

Mediclinic announces that at its Annual General Meeting (“AGM”) held on 25 July 2017, all
resolutions set out in the notice of the AGM were passed by the requisite majority of votes by
shareholders by way of poll. The results of the poll for each resolution were as follows:

                                        TOTAL      % OF            VOTES        %         VOTES       %           VOTES
                                       SHARES    ISSUED             FOR                 AGAINST                WITHHELD
                                        VOTED     SHARE
                                                CAPITAL
                                                  VOTED
      ORDINARY
      RESOLUTIONS
1.    To receive the              643,346,097    87.26%     642,608,938   99.99%           211    0.01%         736,948
      Company’s financial
      statements and the
      reports by the Directors
      and auditors
2.    To approve the Directors’   643,346,097    87.26%     618,212,690   96.25%    24,075,900    3.75%       1,057,507
      Remuneration Report
3.    To approve the amended      643,346,097    87.26%     614,711,926   95.95%    25,915,697    4.05%       2,718,474
      Directors’ Remuneration
      Policy
4.    To declare a final          643,346,097    87.26%     642,966,257   99.99%           211    0.01%         379,629
      dividend of 4.70 pence
      per ordinary share
5.    To elect Jurgens            643,346,097    87.26%     640,899,142   99.68%     2,060,463    0.32%         386,492
      Myburgh as a Director
6.    To re-elect Danie           643,346,097    87.26%     642,864,882   99.99%        94,723    0.01%         386,492
      Meintjes as a Director
7.    To re-elect Dr Edwin        643,346,097    87.26%     625,998,995   97.38%    16,833,567    2.62%         513,535
      Hertzog as a Director
8.    To re-elect Jannie          643,346,097    87.26%     612,105,167   95.26%    30,444,213    4.74%         796,717
      Durand as a Director
9.    To re-elect Alan Grieve     643,346,097    87.26%     640,694,983   99.93%       445,220    0.07%       2,205,894
      as a Director
10.   To re-elect Seamus          643,346,097    87.26%     641,082,006   99.99%        46,572    0.01%       2,217,519
      Keating as a Director
11.   To re-elect Prof Dr         643,346,097    87.26%     641,083,644   99.99%        44,934    0.01%       2,217,519
      Robert Leu as a Director
12.   To re-elect Nandi           643,346,097    87.26%     642,901,226   99.99%        49,254    0.01%         395,617
      Mandela as a Director
13.   To re-elect Trevor          643,346,097    87.26%     632,937,299   98.72%     8,191,279    1.28%       2,217,519
      Petersen as a Director
14.   To re-elect Desmond         643,346,097    87.26%     639,878,832   99.87%       836,521    0.13%       2,630,744
      Smith as a Director
15.   To re-appoint               643,346,097    87.26%     642,446,940   99.99%         3,656    0.01%         895,501
      PricewaterhouseCoopers
      LLP as auditors of the
      Company
16.   To authorise the Audit      643,346,097    87.26%     642,417,589   99.98%      120,859     0.02%         807,649
      and Risk Committee to
      determine the
      remuneration of the
      auditors
17.   To authorise the            643,346,097    87.26%     566,825,468   89.04%    69,771,641   10.96%       6,748,988
      Directors to make
      political donations
18.   To authorise the            643,346,097    87.26%     527,047,324   82.04%   115,391,424   17.96%         907,349
      Directors to allot ordinary
      shares
      SPECIAL
      RESOLUTIONS
19.   To authorise the            643,346,097    87.26%     583,771,316   91.13%    56,840,187    8.87%       2,734,594
      Directors to dis-apply the
      statutory pre-emption
      rights
20.   To authorise the            643,346,097    87.26%     591,889,385   93.19%    43,253,058    6.81%       8,203,654
      Directors to dis-apply
      pre-emption rights for
      purposes of acquisitions
      or capital investments
21.   To authorise the            643,346,097    87.26%     641,126,245   99.99%         1,314    0.01%       2,218,538
      amendment to the
      Articles of Association
22.   To approve the reduction    643,346,097    87.26%     617,065,427   96.43%    22,854,064    3.57%       3,426,606
      in minimum notice period
      for general meetings
      (other than annual
      general meetings)


      VOTES OF SHAREHOLDERS EXCLUDING THE CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDER ON
      ELECTION AND RE-ELECTION OF INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS

      ORDINARY                        TOTAL        % OF          VOTES        %        VOTES         %       VOTED
      RESOLUTIONS                    SHARES      ISSUED            FOR               AGAINST              WITHHELD
                                      VOTED       SHARE
                                                CAPITAL
                                                  VOTED
9.    To re-elect Alan Grieve     571,230,713    77.48%    568,579,599   99.92%      445,220     0.08%    2,205,894
      as a Director
10.   To re-elect Seamus          571,230,713    77.48%    568,966,622   99.99%       46,572     0.01%    2,217,519
      Keating as a Director
11.   To re-elect Prof Dr         571,230,713    77.48%    568,968,260   99.99%       44,934     0.01%    2,217,519
      Robert Leu as a Director
12.   To re-elect Nandi           571,230,713    77.48%    570,785,842   99.99%       49,254     0.01%      395,617
      Mandela as a Director
13.   To re-elect Trevor          571,230,713    77.48%    560,821,915   98.56%    8,191,279     1.44%    2,217,519
      Petersen as a Director
14.   To re-elect Desmond         571,230,713    77.48%    567,763,448   99.85%      836,521     0.15%    2,630,744
      Smith as a Director

Notes:
 1.      Any proxy appointments giving discretion to the Chairman of the Meeting have been included
         in the "For" total.

 2.      A vote "Withheld" is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes "For"
         or "Against" a resolution.

 3.      The Company's total ordinary shares in issue (total voting rights) as at 25 July 2017 was
         737 243 810 ordinary shares of 10 pence each. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one
         vote per ordinary share held.

 4.      As the Company has a controlling shareholder, Remgro Limited, as defined in the Financial
         Conduct Authority's Listing Rules, each resolution to elect an independent non-executive
         director (resolutions 9 to 14) have under Listing Rule 9.2.2E been approved by a majority of
         the votes cast by:
         (a) the shareholders of the Company as a whole; and
         (b) the independent shareholders of the Company, that is, all the shareholders entitled to vote
         on each resolution, excluding the controlling shareholder.

In accordance with paragraph 9.6.2 of the Listing Rules, a copy of the resolutions passed at the
meeting has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for
inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

The complete poll results and details of proxy votes lodged before the AGM will be available shortly
on the Company’s website at www.mediclinic.com.

About Mediclinic International plc
Mediclinic is an international private healthcare group with operating platforms in Southern Africa
(South Africa and Namibia), Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. Its core purpose is to
enhance the quality of life of patients by providing acute care, specialist-orientated, multi-disciplinary
healthcare services. Mediclinic also holds a 29.9% interest in Spire Healthcare Group plc, a LSE
listed and UK-based private healthcare group.

Mediclinic comprises 74 hospitals and 37 clinics. Mediclinic Southern Africa operates 49 hospitals
and 2 day clinics throughout South Africa and 3 hospitals in Namibia with more than 8 000 inpatient
beds in total; Hirslanden operates 16 private acute care facilities and 4 clinics in Switzerland with
more than 1 600 inpatient beds; and Mediclinic Middle East operates 6 hospitals and 31 clinics with
more than 700 inpatient beds in the United Arab Emirates.

During February 2016, the combination of the Company (previously named Al Noor Hospitals Group
plc), with operations mainly in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, and Mediclinic International
Limited was completed. Mediclinic International Limited was a South African based international
private healthcare group founded in 1983 and listed on the JSE, the South African stock exchange,
since 1986, with operations in South Africa, Namibia, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates
(mainly in Dubai). The combination resulted in the renaming of the enlarged group to Mediclinic
International plc.

Mediclinic has a primary listing on the Main Market of the LSE, with secondary listings on the JSE
in South Africa and the NSX in Namibia.

For further information, please contact:
Capita Company Secretarial Services Limited
Victoria Dalby
+44 (0)207 954 9600

Investor Relations, Mediclinic International plc
James Arnold, Head of Investor Relations
ir@mediclinic.com
+44 (0)20 3786 8181

Media queries
FTI Consulting
Brett Pollard/Debbie Scott (UK)
+44 (0)20 3727 1000
Frank Ford (South Africa)
+27 (0)21 487 9000

Registered address: 1st Floor, 40 Dukes Place, London, EC3A 7NH, United Kingdom
Website: www.mediclinic.com
Corporate broker: Morgan Stanley & Co International plc
JSE sponsor: RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)
NSX sponsor: Simonis Storm Securities (Pty) Ltd

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