PGF and ComputerLand to create medical info portal

PGF and ComputerLand to create medical info portal Internet company ComputerLand S.A. and Polska Grupa Farmaceutyczna (PGF), the biggest Polish drugs wholesaler, are close to establishing Clinika.pl, a medical portal worth about zl. 23 million. ComputerLand and PGF will get 48% of shares and the rest will go to the new company's board and probably brokerage house BMT which initiated the deal. At first PGF and ComputerLand will together invest zl. 6 million. The new portal will offer medical information services, general practitioner assistance, drugstore software and a virtual drug warehouse. In addition to this, Clinika.pl will offer medical internet services such as news in medicine, healthy lifestyle and general practitioner education. The first interactive services are scheduled to be operating by the end of the year. The heads of Clinika.pl hope that by 2003 one in three patients and professionals will use the portal. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 32, Puls Biznesu, page 4)