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Page 01 March 31.Indd ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 17 Sport | 28 Qatar’s mid-term Qatar pushes 2022 World census or up GCC banks’ Cup may not mini-census will retail revenue need cooling begin tomorrow. in 2014. systems. TUESDAY 31 MARCH 2015 • 11 Jumada II 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6386 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM opens Gulf Disability Society Forum Qatari firms to Hospital beds acquire 49pc of Shandong to be doubled Group for $5bn BY SATISH KANADY DOHA: Qatar’s Suhaim Bin Hamad Enterprises and in 15 years Qatra for Investment & Development Group (QID) yes- terday announced their plans to Bridge to link HGH, Medical City acquire 49 percent of China’s petrochemical giant Shandong DOHA: Over the next 15 years infrastructure and service deliv- Dongming Petrochemical hospital beds in Qatar will be ery model and will result in last- Group worth $5bn. doubled from the existing 2,100 ing benefits to our patients and Announcing the plans, Ibrahim to 4,200 and the number of spe- the nation,” said Dr Hanan Al El Tinay, Chief Executive of QID, cialist clinics will cross 1,000, Kuwari, Managing Director, said the deal is expected to be according to a master plan HMC, addressing a news confer- Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani opened the 15th Gulf finalised by the end of this year. unveiled by the Hamad Medical ence yesterday. Disability Society Forum at Doha Marriott Hotel yesterday. Sheikh Dr Khalid bin Thani Al Thani (second left) The fund would be used to sup- Corporation (HMC) yesterday. She said that an expansion to was also present. The Society awarded honorary membership to Prime Minister in recognition of his efforts port a number of projects that All HMC facilities around the the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to integrate people with disability into the society. Shandong is currently working Hamad General Hospital (HGH) (NICU) at the existing Women’s on. Once the acquisition deal is will be expanded and unified Hospital, a new Communicable finalised then completion dates under the umbrella of Hamad Bin Diseases Hospital and Ambulatory for these projects will be set, El Khalifa Medical City (HBKMC), Care Centre will be completed Tinay added. a developing healthcare, research and open for patients in the first Haj operators face QR300,000 As per the tripartite agree- and education hub located off the phase of the plan. ment, 1,000 mixed oil, non-oil and C-Ring road opposite HGH. The renovated NICU is planned LNG/CNG stations will be built They will be connected to one to be open by the end of this year, within a 300km radius of China’s another by a pedestrian bridge and adding 26 beds to the existing 80, fines for contract violations Dongming’s Heze refinery. This walkways across the C-Ring road. to care the critically ill newborns. covers regions from China’s six The 15-year ‘HMC Facilities The Communicable Disease DOHA: The licensed Haj permission will expire with the years renewable for a similar provinces. The project presents Master Plan’ unveiled yesterday Hospital would open by late this and Umrah tour operators end of the season. Those found period. The licence will be can- the opportunity for Shandong will see the massive expansion of year or early 2016, with 65 beds (Muqawils) in Qatar will face operating without a permission celled if the licence holder fails to Dongming Petrochemical to HMC facilities in central Doha. within the Al Rumailah compound. up to QR300,000 in fines if they will face fines up to QR500,000. meet the conditions specified in develop retail operations to The Master Plan includes reno- It will provide care for patients fail to provide the services to The law has stipulated a similar the law, in the case of his death or consume their products. 1,000 vation and expansion of existing with transmissible diseases such the pilgrims as agreed in the punishment for Muqawils who fail cancellation of the services. retail stations can consume one hospitals, new specialised hospi- as tuberculosis, SARS and MERS contract, according to the new to fulfil the requirements specified If a violation of the law is third of the Dongming refinery tals, a metabolic centre, neuro- and HIV-AIDS. It will also pro- law (No 3 of 2015) regulating in the licence to ensure a safe and reported, the legal affairs sec- output, Liu Cheng Zhang, Vice- sciences centre, diagnostic and vide travel vaccinations and after Haj and Umrah services. comfortable pilgrimage. tion at the Ministry of Awqaf Chairman Shangdong Dongming treatment centres, a school of travel care for those who fall ill. Muqawils operating without a The licence holder must be a and Islamic Affairs will conduct Petrochemical Group said. clinical services and expansion of The expansion work at the main licence will face heftier fines up to Qatari residing in Qatar and the an investigation and decide the THE PENINSULA physiotherapy, critical care, chil- Paediatric Emergency Center QR500,000. It is also not permit- licensed company should be fully action accordingly. See also page 17 dren’s services, blood bank and (PEC) in Al Sadd is also sched- ted to operate with more than one owned by a Qatari, as per the The action will range from a mental health services. uled to be completed by end of this licence which is punishable with Qatari commercial law. In excep- mere warning to preventing from More autonomy “We have the opportunity to year. Cases treated by the PEC QR300,000 in fines. tional cases, the licence can be operating tours for a period not completely rethink how, what and include neurological, respiratory, Besides the licence, the oper- issued to a company jointly owned more than a year or cancellation for NHRC likely where Hamad delivers care to our cardiac, hematologic, metabolic ator is required to obtain a by Qataris and non-Qataris of licence temporarily for maxi- patients. This Master Plan is a and gastrointestinal emergencies. separate permission from the with approval from the Prime mum seven years or permanently. DOHA: A draft law approved major expansion and modernisa- Continued on page 5 authorities concerned to conduct Minister. Continued on page 5 by the Advisory Council yester- tion of the country’s healthcare THE PENINSULA Haj trips every season and that The licence will be for three THE PENINSULA day seeks to give more auton- omy to Qatar’s National Human Rights Committee (NHRC). The draft also seeks to cancel INSIDE the representation of the Supreme Council of Family Affairs on the Page 9 Woman investor loses QR17m, takes brokerage to court NHRC and replace it with the Ministry of Justice. Now, a rep- Fall of Sana’a as bad resentative each from the interior as that of Mosul DOHA: A woman stock inves- the jail term and fined the bro- The woman said in her com- those papers were about. “I went ministry, labor and social affairs tor has taken a brokerage com- kerage company QR200,000 plaint filed through the Public on putting my signatures on those ministry, foreign affairs ministry By Dr Faisal Al pany and its officials to court ($55,000). Prosecution that she owned papers with full trust in the bro- and justice ministry will be on the Qassem after they told her that she lost The Court of Appeals has stocks worth QR17m and one fine kers,” said the woman. board of the NHRC. all her shares collectively val- adjourned the hearing in the mat- day the brokerage company called After a year when she called No officials of the NHRC, Saudi should ally ued at QR17m ($4.7m) in regu- ter to May 17 and asked details her and said why she had left the the brokers she was told by including board members, would with Turkey to lar trading. of trading in her stocks from shares idle and that she should them she had no shares left in be liable to be taken to court for confront Iran A lower criminal court where the Qatar Central Securities instead trade in them. her name. The woman said she making statements or announce- By Dr Marwan the case first went found the man- Depository. She said she visited the bro- checked her bank account and ments within their specialisation ager of the brokerage firm and his The higher court has also kerage company and they asked after that approached the cus- and NHRC premises couldn’t be Kabalan deputy guilty and sentenced them asked a representative of Qatar her to sign some papers which tomer care department of Qatar raided by law-enforcement offi- to three years in jail. Exchange and the two officials she did. She said she was asked Exchange (QE). Later, she went cials without the presence of a The court said the duo be from the brokerage firm concerned to sign more than 50 papers over to the Public Prosecution. public prosecutor, QNA reported. deported after they have served to also be present on May 17. time and she didn’t know what THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Iran talks stretch into night hours Palestinians observe Land Day LAUSANNE: Marathon talks aimed at curtailing Iran’s Pakistan troops to join nuclear programme stretched into the night yesterday as negotiators grappled with the remaining “tricky issues” block- Saudi in Houthi fight ing a deal with a deadline just hours away. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will chief Sartaj Aziz, would go to Saudi “There still remain some dif- send troops to Saudi Arabia to Arabia today and then decide.
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