Shares re-issued from Treasury

NEWS RELEASE

                                                                    16 May 2013

                         WORLDWIDE HEALTHCARETRUST 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 93,408 Ordinary shares of 25p each has been sold by the Company on 16
May 2013 from the shares held in treasury, at a price of 1102.00 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 4.82%.

There are no longer any Ordinary shares held in treasury by the Company. The
total number of Ordinary shares that the Company has in issue following such
sale is 45,812,914. Therefore, the total number of voting rights in the Company
is 45,812,914.

For and on behalf of

Frostrow Capital LLP
Company Secretary

For further information, please contact:

Mark Pope
Frostrow Capital LLP
Tel: [phone]