BUSINESS | Pages 33, 38 QATAR | Page 32 Everest climber seeks yet INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2 – 9, 30 – 32 COMMENT 28, 29 Vodafone Qatar to REGION 10 BUSINESS 33 – 41 another 15,165.52 9,287.18 93.46 ARAB WORLD 10 – 12 CLASSIFIED 42 – 47 reinvest ‘positive +49.95 +47.96 +1.49 INTERNATIONAL 13 – 27 SPORTS 48 – 56 record +0.33% +11.10% +1.62% distributable gain’ Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 TUESDAY Vol. XXXIV No. 9013 June 4, 2013 Rajab 25, 1434 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals In brief Emir meets Egyptian envoy Health QATAR | Employment Cost of hiring maids increases The cost of employing a housemaid has increased by insurance 15% in Qatar, local Arabic daily Arrayah reports. The cost of hiring an Indonesian maid from a recruitment agency can be as high as QR12,500. The corresponding figure for a Sri Lankan maid is QR11,000. law comes The salary of such workers was increased from QR750 to QR900 before the recruitment of Filipino housemaids was stopped. Meanwhile, the Indonesian embassy has imposed a set of new restrictions on the recruitment of into eff ect maids, not allowing the approval of more than 10 applications per The government will establish provided with additional services by month for each recruitment office. a Qatari joint stock company the healthcare providers after approval Procedures involved to hire maids to be responsible for the by the council. from some other countries have implementation and management Article 5 of the Law says that the also become more complicated, of the health insurance system SCH shall be responsible for the health says the report. insurance system, its supervision, or- he much-awaited universal ganisation and development. health insurance scheme has be- According to Article 6, the SCH QATAR | Survey Tcome a reality in Qatar with HH General Secretariat shall, among other Youth happy about the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al- things, submit periodical recommen- HH the Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani receiving Egyptian ambassador Mohamed Morsy Awad at the Emiri Diwan Thani yesterday issuing Law Number 7 dations to the Minister on the basic state’s direction yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations and ways to enhance them. of 2013. health service that must be provided to A staggering 88% of young Applicable to all residents and visi- the benefi ciaries, the amount of the in- Qataris say they are happy with tors, the health insurance system en- surance premium, and the quantum of the direction in which their sures mandatory basic healthcare, government support. country has been heading while including preventive, medical, reha- For the purpose of issue or renewal looking back over the last five bilitation and diagnostic services. of residence visas, the employers and years, according to the fifth According to the Law, the govern- sponsors should include all their em- annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Station to connect Doha Metro ment shall be responsible for the pay- ployees/workers in the health insur- Arab Youth Survey, released in ment of the health insurance premiums ance system and submit evidence for Doha yesterday. Qatar’s youth are of all citizens. Employers will pay the the same. also positive about how the state premiums of their non-Qatari employ- Every healthcare provider may, in with GCC railway network ees and their family members. accordance with the SCH approval, is competing on an international stage, with 60% agreeing with Visitors have to pay their health in- request to be included in the health in- the statement - “I feel my country large railway station “of in- He gave an audio-visual presenta- be required in diff erent areas to pro- surance premium on the basis of their surance system to provide all or some of can compete on the world stage” ternational standards” will be tion on the complex alignment is- vide space for station entrances and period of their stay in Qatar. A visit visa the basic health services to the benefi - - compared to 54% of Arab youth A built on the outskirts of Doha sues via a simulated fl y-through of other critical infrastructure.” will not be issued or renewed without ciaries. overall. Page 32 as part of Qatar’s rail project, work on the Metro and the critical interfaces An extensive light rail system is the payment of the health insurance The Law was issued after perusal of which has started in diff erent parts of between Qatar Rail and the World planned in Lusail. It will be connected premium. the Constitution, Law No 11 of 1982 the city. Cup stadiums and an outline of the to the Metro network. Law Number 7 of 2013 comprises concerning the organisation of medi- CHINA | Disaster Highlighting this at a meeting held procurement and packaging strate- Shaw explained how the construc- six chapters and 30 articles. The Law cal institutions, Law No 5 of 1989 con- Poultry plant at the Doha offi ce of Atkins, the de- gies. The current status of the Doha tion work, including the procurement comes into eff ect from the date of is- cerning the general budget, Law No 8 of sign, engineering and project man- Metro, Lusail Light Railway and long- of materials, rolling stock and other sue and will be published in the offi cial 1989 concerning treatment of nation- fi re kills dozens agement consultancy, Qatar Railways distance passenger/freight plans were elements, was being put in place in gazette. als of the Gulf Co-operation Council At least 119 people were killed in a Company senior programme director covered in the presentation. advance so as to reduce the likelihood Article 19 of the Law says that the countries in health establishments, and fire which swept through a poultry Adrian Shaw said the “state-of-the- Shaw explained that the Doha Metro of shortages and delays. government shall establish a Qatari the recommendations of the Advisory processing plant in northeast art station” would connect the Doha project involved several lines, totalling At the seminar’s end , Chair of the joint stock company as per the Com- Council (Shura). China yesterday in what appeared Metro with the planned GCC railway a distance of around 216km. The Met- CIHT’s Qatar chapter, Kate Bygrave, mercial Law to be responsible for the It was reported earlier that the health to be the country’s deadliest blaze network. ro, he said, would provide “excellent” gave a memento to Atkins Qatar man- implementation and management of insurance scheme will be implemented for 12 years. The fire engulfed the The meeting was held under the ae- connectivity with the new Hamad In- aging director Rod Stewart in recogni- the health insurance system. in phases, with Qatari women included Baoyuan poultry plant in minutes gis of the Qatar chapter of the Char- ternational Airport and Doha’s resi- tion of his support. As per the provision of the Law, the in the fi rst stage. following a blast triggered by a tered Institution of Highways and dential areas, extending up to Al Khor The next seminar will be held at employers may provide their workers, suspected chemical leak. More Transportation (CIHT). in the north and Mesaieed in the south. the Renaissance Doha City Center their family members and their spon- Healthcare pledges than 300 employees were in the Shaw said the Doha Metro was one He said the Metro would largely Hotel on June 25. Alan Hampshire, of sored persons additional healthcare or plant at Dehui in Jilin province at of the most prestigious projects be- run above ground outside Doha city. KBR, an engineering, construction special medical insurance. The newly-launched National Primary the time. Page 17 ing undertaken in preparation for the Inside the city, it would be an under- and services company, will speak on Non-Qatari women married to Qatari Healthcare Strategy 2013-2018 has made 2022 FIFA World Cup. ground facility. “Some demolition will Doha’s expressways at the event. men, children of Qatari women married 10 pledges that guarantee quality care to non-Qataris and other categories de- for all. The biggest primary healthcare QATAR | Diplomacy cided by the Minister of Public Health provider in the country, the Primary PM receives and the secretary general of the Supreme Health Care Corporation (PHCC), aims at Council of Health (SCH) will get treat- achieving the goals and the 10 pledges call from Kerry ment similar to that of Qatari nationals. by seeking patients’ feedback and in- HE the Prime Minister and Foreign The health insurance shall be pro- creasing consultation time to 12 minutes. Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim vided by establishments legally licensed In application of the strategy, the PHCC bin Jabor al-Thani yesterday to carry on the insurance business and will publish annual reports showing received a telephone call from licensed by the SCH, in accordance with patients’ needs are assessed and met US Secretary of State John Kerry. the Law to provide insurance cover to and the process will require involvement Discussions during the call dealt residents and visitors and those who de- of the community in determining needs with bilateral relations, besides sire to obtain additional health services. at diff erent levels. Page 6 the current situation in Syria. Qatar Railways Company senior programme director Adrian Shaw addressing the gathering. The benefi ciaries of the Law may be SCH planning three new hospitals exclusively for workers By Noimot Olayiwola The hospitals’ design will be “fl ex- whose outline design phase starts this Staff Reporter ible” to allow their layout and services year.