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                                                                   Exhibit 31.1


                          RULE 13a-14(a) CERTIFICATION

                           NATIONAL QUALITY CARE, INC.
                             a Delaware corporation

              SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

         I, Victor Gura, Chief Executive Officer of National Quality Care, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), do hereby certify, in accordance with
Rules 13a-14 and 15d-14, as created pursuant to Section 302(a) of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, with respect to the Yearly Report on Form 10-KSBSB
of the Company for the year ended December 31, 2003, as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission herewith under Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), that:

     (1)  I have reviewed this Yearly Report on Form 10-KSBSB of the Company for
          the year ended December 31, 2003 (the "Yearly Report");

     (2)  Based on my knowledge, this Yearly Report does not contain any untrue
          statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
          necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances
          under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to
          the periods covered by this Yearly Report;

     (3)  Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
          information included in this Yearly Report, fairly present in all
          material respects the financial condition, results of operations and
          cash flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in
          this Yearly Report;

     (4)  The Company's other certifying officer and I are responsible for
          establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
          defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal
          control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
          13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f)) for the Company and have:

          (a)  designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such
               disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
               supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the
               Company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known
               to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
               period in which this Yearly Report is being prepared;

          (b)  evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls
               and procedures and presented in this Yearly Report our
               conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls
               and procedures, as of the end of the periods covered by this
               Yearly Report based on such evaluation; and

          (c)  disclosed in this Yearly Report any change in the Company's
               internal control over financial reporting that occurred during
               the Company's most recent fiscal quarter (the Company's fourth
               fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has
               materially affected, or is reasonable likely to materially
               affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting;
               and

     (5)  The Company's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on
          our most recent evaluation, to the Company's auditors and the Audit
          Committee of the Company's board of directors (or persons performing
          the equivalent functions):

          (a)  all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the
               design or operation of internal control over financial reporting
               which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Company's
               ability to record, process, summarize and report financial
               information; and

          (b)  any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or
               other employees who have a significant role in the Company's
               internal control over financial reporting.


Dated: April 6, 2005                                 By:   /s/ VICTOR GURA
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                                                               VICTOR GURA
                                                         CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER