BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Watford stun INDEX DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2 – 11, 32 COMMENT 30, 31 Qatar insurance Arsenal REGION 12, 13 BUSINESS 1 – 5, 11 – 16 17,091.00 10,327.84 38.50 ARAB WORLD 13, 14 CLASSIFIED 6 – 10 industry poised +191.00 -58.60 +0.66 INTERNATIONAL 15 – 29 SPORTS 1 – 12 in FA Cup +1.13% -0.56% +1.74% for further growth Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 MONDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10027 March 14, 2016 Jumada II 5, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals World-fi rst In brief QATAR | Weather for HMC in Scattered showers likely There are chances of scattered rain in Qatar today and tomorrow, the Met Department has said. “Unstable weather is expected to academic aff ect Qatar from Monday morning until Tuesday night,” it said. Northwesterly to northeasterly winds (light to moderate) are expected during this period. Strong winds and high seas are likely in health off shore areas. The wind speed may go up to 25 knots in some A vehicle burning after the explosion in Ankara yesterday. HE the Minister of Public Health Dr “This achievement puts HMC along- places, with the sea level rising to Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari praises side an elite international group of 7ft. The minimum and maximum the HMC’s “enormous achievement” healthcare providers to gain Academic temperatures today are expected Medical Centre accreditation and shows to be 20C and 30C respectively, atar has achieved a signifi cant that its approach to developing excel- with the forecast for Doha being distinction with the Hamad lence in healthcare in Qatar is transform- 21C and 28C. Second blast in a month QMedical Corporation (HMC) be- ing the care it is providing for patients.” coming the fi rst healthcare system across Dr Paul Chang, vice president, Ac- the globe to have all of its hospitals ac- creditation, Standards and Measure- BRITAIN | Politics credited by the Joint Commission Inter- ment, JCI said: “Successfully achieving Obama ‘due in UK national (JCI) under the Academic Medi- Academic Medical Centre Accredita- to make pro-EU case’ kills dozens in Ankara cal Centre programme. tion simultaneously across all hospitals It has also become the fi rst hospital shows there is more than just a commit- US President Barack Obama will system outside the US to achieve JCI Ac- ment to provide great care all the time – head to Britain next month and Reuters ademic Medical Centre accreditation for there is a commitment to share learning make the case for the UK to stay Ankara all its hospitals simultaneously. and develop new ways of delivering even in the European Union, a British This follows almost two months of better care.” newspaper reported yesterday. on-site surveys by the internationally- Prof Adeel Butt, interim chief quality The visit will take place towards the car bomb killed at least 32 peo- renowned independent JCI, which iden- offi cer, and director, Hamad Healthcare end of April, around two months ple at a crowded transport hub tifi es, measures and shares leading prac- Quality Institute, said that accreditation before the June 23 referendum in A in the Turkish capital of An- tices in healthcare quality and patient by JCI and the distinction of becoming which Britain will decide whether to kara yesterday and wounded at least safety across the world. the fi rst organisation to achieve system- leave or stay in the 28-country bloc, 75 more, the second such attack in the Since January this year, a JCI team wide compliance with Academic Medical The Independent on Sunday said. administrative heart of the city in less of surveyors has closely examined over Centre standards underlines the progress A spokesman for Prime Minister than a month. 304 standards and 1,400 measurable el- HMC has made in becoming a place David Cameron’s Downing Street The blast, which could be heard ements in the hospitals of HMC – all of where the world’s leading clinicians and off ice refused to comment on the several kilometres away, sent burning which have now received offi cial Gold researchers now want to work. report, calling it “speculation”. debris showering down over an area a Seal of Approval for accreditation under Dr Badriya al-Ali, deputy chief quality few hundred metres from the Justice the Academic Medical Centre Hospital offi cer, HMC, said that the announce- and Interior Ministries, a top court- standards. JCI accreditation is consid- ment was the pinnacle of a 10-year peri- KOREA | Science house, and the former offi ce of the ered the gold standard in healthcare. od in which the JCI has evaluated quality Go player beats prime minister. “This achievement is even more im- at the corporation which has supported Police helicopters hovered over- Rescuers carrying a blast victim into an ambulance in Ankara yesterday. pressive as the hospitals were evaluated hospital staff to continuously improve Google program head as a large cloud of smoke rose against JCI’s 5th edition standards – the the quality and safety of care they pro- South Korean Lee Sedol won his over the city centre. also involved in that attack, near the had exploded at a major transport most challenging standards to date,” ac- vide. first match against a computer One senior security offi cial told military headquarters, parliament and hub, hitting a bus carrying some 20 cording to an offi cial. Dr Yousuf al-Maslamani, medical di- program developed by a Google Reuters initial fi ndings suggested the other key government institutions. people near the central Guven Park HE the Minister of Public Health Dr rector, Hamad General Hospital, added: subsidiary on Sunday in the ancient attack had been carried out by the Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Kizilay Square. It said the area Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari, who is also “Every single employee of HMC knows board game Go, denying a clean Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) or an held an emergency meeting with the was crowded when the explosion hap- the HMC managing director, said: “This that our approach is to provide the best sweep for the artificial intelligence affi liated militant group, but there was interior minister, the head of the in- pened at 6:43pm (1643 GMT). world-fi rst accreditation is an enormous care always. Today’s announcement in a five-match series. Lee, one of no immediate claim of responsibility. telligence agency and police and se- Nato member Turkey faces multiple achievement for HMC and the public shows we are delivering on that commit- the world’s top players and a holder The previous car bombing came curity chiefs, offi cials said. President security threats. As part of a US-led health system in Qatar and demonstrates ment and that we have made signifi cant of 18 international titles, recovered just a few blocks away on February Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with coalition, it is fi ghting Islamic State its commitment to continuously learn- strides towards becoming one of the from three consecutive losses 17. It killed 29 people, most of them the interior minister. (IS) in neighbouring Syria and Iraq. ing, teaching and improving care. world’s leading healthcare providers.” against the AlphaGo programme soldiers, and was claimed by a group A second senior offi cial said gunfi re It is also battling PKK militants in its developed by DeepMind. Page 19 close to the PKK. The government was heard after the blast. southeast, where a 2 ½-year cease- said Syrian Kurdish militants were State broadcaster TRT said the car fi re collapsed last July, triggering the worst violence since the 1990s. BANGLADESH | Crime Qatar condemns bomb attack Turkey sees the unrest in its largely Bank says hackers Kurdish southeast as deeply linked to Qatar has expressed its “strong condem- statement reiterated “Qatar’s support to events in northern Syria, where the tried to steal $951mn nation and denunciation” of the explosion Turkey in all measures it takes to face such Kurdish YPG militia has been seizing Bangladesh’s central bank that hit Ankara’s central Kizilay neighbour- criminal acts which aim to shake its secu- territory as it fi ghts both Islamic State yesterday confirmed that cyber hood yesterday. A statement issued last rity and stability”, stressing its firm position and rebels battling President Bashar criminals tried to withdraw $951mn night by the Foreign Ministry stressed “which rejects violence and terrorism in all al-Assad. from its US bank account, as the Qatar’s condemnation of the criminal act its forms and manifestations”. The ministry Ankara fears those gains will stoke country’s finance minister said “which is contrary to all the teachings of extended its “sincere condolences to the separatist ambitions among its own he first got to know of one of the the revealed religions and all humanitarian Turkish government and families of the Kurds and has long argued that the biggest bank heists in history values and targeted innocent people”. The victims killed by this heinous crime”. YPG and PKK have close ideological HE the Minister of Public Health Dr Hanan Mohamed al-Kuwari with HMC and JCI through the media. Page 29 and operational ties. off icials. Aspetar expanding its facilities and services By Joseph Varghese the North Expansion of the hospital,” Staff Reporter he said. Dr al-Kuwari explained that the West Expansion is a continuation of spetar, a leading orthopaedic the ongoing modernisation and devel- and sports medicine hospital in opment undertaken by Aspetar to stay Athe region and member of As- in-line with the latest developments in pire Zone Foundation (AZF), yesterday sports medicine.