Leader Healthcare and EpiGuard Sign Distribution Agreement for Qatar and the UAE

PRESS RELEASE

OSLO, NORWAY—EpiGuard announced March 16, 2022, a new agreement with Dubai-based medical equipment distributor Leader Healthcare that will make more EpiShuttle isolation stretchers available to citizens and visitors of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

“We have been searching for the best product to isolate and transport contaminated or contagious individuals,” stated Malaz M. Fadlallah, head of the medical division of Leader Healthcare. “In our search, we found the EpiShuttle to have unparalleled features. The EpiShuttle is by far the superior product on the market. At the same time, it is the most cost efficient in use.”

The EpiShuttle by EpiGuard is a single-patient isolation and transport system designed to provide maximum public safety while allowing critical care and treatment to be performed on the contaminated patient inside.

“The EpiShuttle has already proven effective in live transports of patients contaminated with chemical war agents as well as in hundreds of COVID-19 transports,” said Ellen Cathrine Andersen, CEO of EpiGuard. “We have also seen the EpiShuttle provide safe and efficient transports of patients with other infectious diseases like Ebola and tuberculosis.”

The EpiShuttle is designed to protect both the environment or a single individual from contamination, in either positive or negative air-pressure mode.

“We found a very good partner in Leader Healthcare. They have provided the finest healthcare solutions for more than ten years, and the EpiShuttle is a good strategic fit with their competence and knowledge,” Andersen continued. “Now, we hope the EpiShuttle can keep even more citizens in Qatar and the UAE safe from both existing threats and—perhaps more importantly—so-far unknown threats, in years to come.”

The EpiShuttle is already in use with Abu Dhabi Police and Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services. Qatar currently has no EpiShuttles.

On a global scale, the EpiShuttle is used by WHO as well as first responders in Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Peru, Ireland, Greece, Norway, and Finland. National air forces such as the British, Australian, Canadian, Danish, Norwegian and other forces are equipped with EpiShuttles. Private sector clients include FAI air ambulance, Air Alliance Medflight, DRF Luftrettung, Keewatin Air, Luxembourg Air Rescue, Loganair and others.