Salt Lake City, Utah - Utah Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTMD) announces that its Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of twenty cents ($.20) per share of common stock payable on

City, Utah - Utah Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq: UTMD) announces that its

of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of twenty cents ($.20) per

of common stock payable on October 4, 2006 to shareholders of record at the

close of business on September 15, 2006. This is a five percent (5%) increase

over the prior quarter's dividend, and a twenty-nine percent (29%) increase over

the dividend declared in the same quarter of the prior year.

Medical Products, Inc., with particular interest in health care for women

their babies, develops, manufactures, assembles and markets a broad range

disposable and reusable specialty medical devices.