 As did the two existing facilities outside Europe, with Sydney's Medically Supervised Injecting Center (MSIC) established in May 2001 as a trial and Vancouver's Insite, opened in September 2003.In 2010, after a nine-year trial, the Sydney site was confirmed as a permanent public health facility.As of late 2009 there were a total of 92 professionally supervised injection facilities in 61 cities.