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Page 01 April 09.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 9 April 2013 28 Jumada I 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5664 Price: QR2 Al Sada opens GCC Athletics: hi-tech Qatar’s Francis drilling rig wins gold Business | 17 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 SCH warns Egypt satirist against use of antibiotic criticised for azithromycin DOHA: The Supreme Council targeting Qatar of Health (SCH) has warned against the use of azithromycin, one of the world’s bestselling antibiotics, without a prescrip- ‘Bassem show will spoil relations’ tion or guidance of a doctor due to its potentially harmful side DOHA: A show last Friday of The original song was a cho- effects. a popular Egyptian TV sati- rus that was sung by a number The SCH has also asked doc- rist that made a mockery of of famous Egyptian singers in tors and other health workers to Qatar for helping their country 1960. According to Egyptian take the side effects and risk fac- financially has led to a contro- newspaper El Akhbar, social net- tors into consideration while pre- versy, with a large number of working websites in Egypt were scribing the medicine to patients. Egyptians criticising the host of filled with comments criticising Azithromycin is used to treat the TV programme for insulting Youssef’s Friday show. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani (centre) with Palestinian or prevent certain bacterial infec- a friendly country and attack- “The show shouldn’t have been President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and Arab League Secretary General Dr Nabil Al Arabi at the Arab Peace Initiative tions, such as middle ear infec- ing its policies. used to target a friendly country Committee meeting in Doha yesterday. tions, strep throat, pneumonia, Bassem Youssef, the host, is while handling our own national typhoid, bronchitis and sinusitis. also being criticised for making issues,” the newspaper quoted a It is widely prescribed for infants a parody of a national song of the commentator on a social network- and those with weak immune sys- 1960s about Arab unity to mock ing site. Ministers discuss reviving tems. The medicine is available at Qatar. The song titled Watani Some commentators have under various product names such El Akbar had been made into even gone to the extent of urg- as Zimax, Azalid, Zithromax, Azi- Qatari Habibi for the contro- ing military intervention to stop once, Azomycin, Zocin, Zetrocin, versial TV show. The parody has the parody from being viewed on Mideast peace process Mazit and Zomax. been viewed on YouTube more YouTube and expressed anger at The SCH warning applies to than 350,000 times, Egyptian the show saying it aimed at spoil- the medicine in its various forms news websites report. ing Egypt’s relations with Qatar. DOHA: An Arab ministerial as the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Morocco, the Palestinians, and is based on a health alert The tune, a parody of a popu- Some have said Youssef has committee met here yesterday Sultanate of Oman and Kuwait. Qatar and Saudi Arabia, as well issued by the US Food and Drug lar song of Gamal Abdul Nasser’s misused what is a platform for to discuss ways to revive the “This meeting was to discuss as the Arab League chief, he said. Administration (FDA) recently. era, mock at Qatar for provid- entertainment to attack other stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace the mission of the Arab delega- Abbas told visiting Kerry on FDA had warned that azithro- ing financial assistance to Egypt, countries and their policies. process and plans to send a mis- tion that will visit Washington on Sunday that Israel should freeze mycin can cause abnormal changes and the so-called plans of the At least one commentator on sion to Washington, the Arab April 29,” Al Arabi said. settlement construction and in the electrical activity of the Egyptian government to sell Suez the Twitter, who gave his name as League chief said. Arabi said before the meeting release prisoners, especially those heart that may lead to a potentially Canal and lease the pyramids to Ahmed Al Darwi said that Qatar The talks of the Arab Peace that the delegation would go to arrested before the 1993 Oslo fatal irregular heart rhythm. Qatar — accusations that Qatar’s was the only country that helped Initiative Committee was the UN Security Council in New Accords, before any resumption Patients at particular risk of Prime Minister and Foreign Egypt when the latter was in a chaired by the Prime Minister York. It is not clear if the delega- of peace talks. Kerry said in Israel developing this condition include Minister, H E Sheikh Hamad bin deep crisis. Another named Jamad and Foreign Minister H E tion will still visit the UN head- that he was focused on a “quiet those with known risk factors such Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, earlier Eid said on the Twitter that insult- Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin quarters. The proposal to send strategy” to breathe new life into as existing QT interval prolonga- laughed at and described as wild ing Qatar was akin to insulting Jabor Al Thani in the presence of a delegation to New York was the peace process, but he would tion, low blood levels of potassium and baseless. their own homeland (Egypt). Palestinian President Mahmoud agreed at an Arab summit held not be rushed. or magnesium, a slower than nor- Youssef’s last Friday’s weekly Critics of the show point out that Abbas the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. in Doha last month. Abbas also wants Israeli Prime mal heart rate, or intake of certain programme, that focused on Hamdeen Sabbahi, a politician who The meeting was attended Palestinian foreign minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to drugs used to treat abnormal heart Qatar, ran the controversial par- lost to Mohammed Mursi in the by the Arab League Secretary Riyad Al Malki said that the del- present a map of the borders of rhythm, or arrhythmia. ody which, among other things, presidential election, was present General Dr Nabil Al Arabi, and egation being sent to Washington a future Palestinian state before FDA had said that the warning mocked at the Egyptians them- during the show and he didn’t utter the Ministers of Foreign Affairs would meet US President Barack talks can resume, but a top politi- was based on a study by medical selves as it said: “After the revolu- a word when Qatar was being tar- and heads of delegations of the Obama and Secretary of State cal official told Israel’s Maariv researchers and another study tion we are begging overseas” — a geted. THE PENINSULA member states of the Arab Peace John Kerry. The team will include newspaper this was out of the by a manufacturer of the drug reference to Qatar. Continued on page 6 Initiative Committee, as well the foreign ministers of Egypt, question. QNA/AFP that assessed the potential for azithromycin to cause abnormal changes in the electrical activity of the heart. Enquiries with pharmacists here yesterday revealed that the Qatar to invest antibiotic in its various product Qatar pledges $500m for Darfur projects names is widely sold in Qatar and $200bn in core is commonly prescribed by doc- DOHA: Qatar yesterday The pledges include the some countries might increase of rebel splinter groups, seeks tors, especially for children. pledged $500m to support $2.65bn committed by the their pledge when they look at support for the six-year, $7.25bn “Azithromycin, like other anti- sector projects development projects in Darfur. Sudanese government in a July the projects in detail,” said Al strategy to wean Darfur off food biotics, can be sold in Qatar only DOHA: The hydrocarbons-rich This is part of the $3.6bn com- 2011 peace deal. Mahmoud handouts and other emergency with a prescription. It is one of Qatar has plans to invest about mitted by the participating coun- Qatar is also contribut- Qatar’s charitable organisa- aid, and lay the foundation for the bestselling antibiotics in the $200bn in infrastructure devel- tries at the International Donors ing $200m initially to the $2bn tions announced $141m for reha- lasting development through country and is widely prescribed opment over next 10 years, of Conference for reconstruction Darfur Development Bank, bilitation projects in Darfur at the improved infrastructure. for children because it is highly that $140bn will be invested and development of Darfur which Amin Shakawi, the Deputy conference. The European Union (EU) effective in treating infections within next five years, accord- concluded here yesterday. Country Director of the United This included pledges by promised $35m and Germany in the upper respiratory track,” ing to the Minister of Economy Qatar will make an immediate Nations Development Programme Qatar Charity, Sheikh Thani agreed to contribute €13m in aid. said a pharmacist. He said since and Finance H E Yousuf Hussein contribution of $88m, half of the (UNDP) said at the end of the bin Abdullah for Humanitarian Britain had on Sunday offered the medicine is not available Kamal. Full report on page 17 $177m needed for urgent projects conference. Services (RAF), Sheikh Eid at least $16m for Darfur annually here without a prescription, the in the war-torn region, Deputy Although the pledges fell short Charity, Qatar Red Crescent, Al over the next three years to help SCH warning might be target- Premier and Minister of State of the $7.2bn the UN had hoped Asmakh Charity and the Sheikh the communities grow food and ing mainly doctors to make them US visa lottery for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed to raise, the biggest commitments Jassim bin Jabor Charity.
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