ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 24 December 2013 20 Safar 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5923 Price: QR2 Nakilat signs Qatar eye $160m deals 2015 Asian with Al Khaliji Championship Business | 17 Sport | 25 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Upgrade skills or quit, PM receives message from Guinea Bissau doctors, nurses told Continuous education to be made mandatory DOHA: Doctors, nurses and and CPD programmes, including claim CME/CPD credit units (CUs) other healthcare practition- online training modules that the designated for each module. This ers in Qatar who don’t upgrade practitioners can choose from. will help healthcare practitioners themselves through continu- Qatar University is one of the not only to cover the gaps in their ous education and training accredited CMC/CPD centres in knowledge and skills but also to be would fail to get their licences Qatar,” Dr Jamal Rashid Al Khanji, trained on how to plan for, grant, renewed. Acting Chief Executive Officer of fulfil and keep sufficient CPD In two years, the Supreme QCHP told this daily yesterday. credit units that will be mandated Council of Health (SCH) will QCHP is responsible for licens- by the year 2016, for their annual be making it mandatory for all ing all healthcare practitioners re-licensing and recertification in healthcare practitioners, work- in the country in the private and Qatar,” said the statement. ing in the public and private sec- public sectors. The department has introduced tors to go through internationally As a pilot project to help the a national CME/CPD accreditation The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani received a written accepted training programmes practitioners use the online framework with the aim of devel- message from Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea Bissau Rui Duarte Barros dealing with bilateral relations. and obtain a minimum required CME modules, the Accreditation oping and implementing an inter- Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau Roberto Antonio Vieira delivered the message yesterday. score every year as a condition for Department is providing free nationally-recognisable system for renewing their licence. access to the internationally rec- accreditation of health professional The Accreditation Department ognised BMJ Online Learning education in the country. This at the Qatar Council for website for all practitioners, for would help in promoting knowl- Detained Qatari’s son held in UAE Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) three months. edge, competence and perform- is the sole regulator of the inter- During the trial phase, the ance of healthcare practitioners national training programmes in online training modules will be and improve the quality of patient DOHA: A son of a Qatari medi- attending the hearing in their people are trying to suggest that Qatar that are known as CME accessible to doctors and nurses care, the SCH said. cal doctor, who is being tried by father’s case. the incident took place inside the (continuous medical education) at the Al Ahli and Al Emadi hospi- The CME/CPD system encour- a UAE court for alleged links However, some tweeters, court premises. This is not true. and CPD (continuous professional tals but later they will be extended ages healthcare practitioners to to a banned social organisa- apparently from the UAE, said The incident took place outside development). to all healthcare practitioners in pursue a variety of educational tion there, has been arrested Abdul Rahman was arrested the court”. By 2016, all healthcare practi- all sectors, the SCH said in a sepa- activities and resources appropriate while attending a court hearing after he assaulted a secu- Yet another tweet message said tioners will be required to keep rate statement yesterday. to their practice available in face to against his father yesterday, Al rity official outside the court that security officials of the court sufficient CPD credits to get their The BMJ website provides an face and online formats and with Sharq reports. premises. had earlier complained about the annual licences renewed, the SCH opportunity for healthcare prac- set requirements from the QCHP. Hassan, the son of Dr Mahmoud “Abdul Rahman broke one of behaviour of Abdul Rahman so said. “This is an important move titioners to develop their skills A commonly used resource for Al Jaidah who was detained by the fingers of the officer,” said one when he came into the court to improve the quality of health- through several educational mod- CME/CPD, that is yet to be intro- the UAE police late last February tweeter. “He became emotional premises, a security official asked care in the country by forcing ules including clinical and non- duced to Qatar, is the accredited in Dubai while he was on his way and began screaming while secu- him to accompany him for ques- the practitioners to continuously clinical healthcare related skills. online CME libraries, added the to Doha from Bangkok, told the rity officials tried to calm him tioning him. This might have upgrade their skills and knowl- “Completing online modules in statement. daily his brother Abdul Rahman down.” infuriated him. edge. There are a variety of CMC this trial will entitle participants to THE PENINSULA had been taken into custody while Another tweeter said: “Some THE PENINSULA Qatar gives $10m Qatari activist ‘targeted’ for exposing US drone strikes to Arab League DOHA: A prominent Geneva-based He has been accused of providing money Asked about the death toll so far in licence in Geneva. Plus, the fact remains Qatari human rights activist who has and material support and having communi- the drone attacks, he told The Peninsula that it is a good place to work for human CAIRO: Qatar handed over been accused by the US Treasury cation with Al Qaeda and its affiliates in Iraq, he couldn’t cite a figure offhand. “But I rights since there are a lot of UN and other a cheque worth $10m to Arab Department of financing Al Qaeda has Syria, Somalia and Yemen. “The fact is that remember that in one attack, for example, international organisations.” League yesterday as contribu- rubbished the allegations and said they I have never set foot on the soil of Iraq or 45 civilians were killed, in another some “Geneva provides a very good work tion to the pension fund for were totally baseless. Syria. Yes, I have been to Yemen but that was 25 people, and still another drone attack environment to document human rights the employees of the Arab Abdul Rahman bin Umair Al Nuaimi in connection with my work (of documenting claimed a dozen lives.” violations.” League. told The Peninsula yesterday that on the human rights violations),” Al Nuaimi said. Drone attacks mainly target marriage His organisation Alkarama, he said, docu- Qatar’s Ambassador to Egypt contrary media organs of some Al Qaeda He earlier told a news conference the US parties and family get-togethers, he said. ments human rights violations in the Arab and its Permanent Representative affiliates have been dubbing him as an agent Treasury Department might have targeted “My Geneva-based organisation has world. Al Nuaimi also heads an Arab Studies to the Arab League Saif bin of the west and a backer of Arab regimes. him because his Geneva-based human rights also documented the killings by the state Centre in Doha. It specialises in studying Muqaddam Al Buainain handed “I have never ever met an Al Qaeda organisation, Alkarama, has extensively doc- security forces in Egypt after the military social and political affairs in the Arab world over the cheque to Arab League operative or leader,” Al Nuaimi said on umented drone attacks in Yemen in which takeover. The toll is over a 1,000.” and has published several booklets. He said Secretary-General Dr Nabil Al the phone. so many innocent civilians have been killed. Asked why he chose Geneva, and not the listing by the US Treasury Department Arabi in Cairo. He is one of the two men listed (the “My organisation even once honoured a an Arab city, as the venue to set up his is an administrative decision, and not a Dr Al Arabi expressed his sin- other being a Yemeni national) as global journalist, Abdul Ilah Shaya, for exposing human rights organisation, Al Nuaimi said judicial one, and can thus be revoked. cere appreciation and thanks to terrorists by the US Treasury Department the extent of killings of innocent civilians Arab countries do not provide licence to THE PENINSULA the State of Qatar and the Emir last Wednesday. in drone attacks in Yemen.” such human rights organisations. “I got the Continued on page 5 H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He lauded the proposal of the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani BA flight wing clips building to establish a pension fund for employees of the Arab League made during the 24th Arab League Storms batter UK, Summit, held in Doha in March. QNA leaving two dead Salva Kiir says LONDON: Storm winds and Agency has issued a severe flood ready for talks torrential rain have swept warning in the south west, saying Britain, leaving two people “extremely dangerous” conditions WASHINGTON: South dead, thousands of homes with- posed a danger to life. Sudan’s President Salva Kiir out power, and wreaking havoc The agency also issued 34 flood said yesterday he is committed on the great Christmas getaway. warnings, of which 19 were in the to beginning talks with rebel Festive travellers were bracing south-west, and warned a further leader Riek Machar, the coun- themselves for another day of chaos 200 regions to be on alert for iso- try’s former vice-president, to today as fallen debris cluttered lated floods.