Re-Issue of Shares from Treasury

NEWS RELEASE

                                                                     1 May 2013

                         WORLDWIDE HEALTHCARE TRUST PLC                         

                                (the "Company")                                

                  SALE OF COMPANY'S OWN SHARES FROM TREASURY                   

Notification is given pursuant to the authority granted at the Annual General
Meeting of the Company held on 17 July 2012 to sell shares held by the Company
as treasury shares up to an aggregate nominal value of £1,081,545, representing
10 per cent. of the issued ordinary share capital of the Company, that a market
total of 35,000 Ordinary shares of 25p each has been sold by the Company on 1
May 2013 from the shares held in treasury, at a price of 1046 p per share which
equates to an estimated discount to the fully diluted cum income net asset
value per share at the time of sale of 4.81%.

The resultant total number of Ordinary shares held in treasury by the Company
is 223,408. The total number of Ordinary shares that the Company has in issue
following such sale is 45,763,154. Therefore, the total number of voting rights
in the Company is 45,539,746.

For and on behalf of

Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary

For further information, please contact:

Mark Pope
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: [phone]