ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Beach Volleyball: Germans reign supreme in Doha Sport | 32 Sunday 9 November 2014 • 16 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6244 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Berlin Wall celebrations Hotels warned Law on salary against flouting massage rules DOHA: The authorities have transfer likely issued a stern warning to hotels in the country against employ- ing women to do massaging on their male guests, Al Sharq reports. by year-end The warning came in response to a report published by Al Sharq recently about some hotels resort- No plan to introduce minimum wage ing to such practices in violation of the rules. DOHA: The proposed amend- include financial rights of work- The report that appeared with ments in the labour law that will ers and mandatory transfer of pictures of women massaging men make it mandatory on employ- employees’ salaries to banks by led to a huge public outcry, said ers to transfer salaries to banks the end of every month. the daily. is expected to be issued by the A draft decision to this effect The authorities have now asked end of this year, the Minister of was issued by the Ministry all hotels to strictly comply with Labour and Social Affairs H E in July this year. It was sent the law as well as the traditions Dr Abdullah Saleh Mubarak Al to the State Cabinet which in of the country. Khulaifi has hinted. turn referred it to the Advisory They have been warned of The Minister, during a recent Council for its recommenda- stern action if found violating meeting with editors-in-chief of tions. The Council is expected the rules, said the daily. As per local newspapers, however, ruled to discuss the issue in its forth- the rules, men and women have out the possibility of introducing coming session, Al Sharq reports. been banned from doing massage minimum wages for workers in “We accept the criticisms Lit balloons are placed along the former Berlin Wall location near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin yesterday. on the opposite sex. Qatar. against us. We have nothing to Germany will celebrate the fall of the wall with the release of a nine-mile chain of lit balloons along the former THE PENINSULA The meeting was held as part hide. We have no reservations border tonight. See also page 14 of a government plan to launch a in dealing with the media,” the Salary hike soon for campaign involving local media Minister told the gathering. against the continuing interna- “We are working under pres- non-teaching staff in tional propaganda against Qatar sure. Our inspectors, who are over workers’ rights. Head of var- bestowed with judicial powers Independent schools ious departments at the ministry are doing their best. They have Houthis reject power-sharing govt were also present at the meeting. to protect the privacy of the com- DOHA: The Supreme The Minister reiterated that panies while doing their job. They SANA’A: Yemen’s Houthi thereby demonstrating its main The UN sanctioned the three Education Council (SEC) will there is no ban on recruiting have taken an oath not to leak the movement yesterday rejected loyalty to his predecessor and men for attempting to desta- soon announce an increase in workers to Qatar from any coun- secrets of companies,” he added. a new power-sharing govern- rival Ali Abdullah Saleh. bilise Yemen’s fragile political salaries of the administrative try or nationality. The Minister said it is not pos- ment that President Abd-Rabbu Hadi was forced to name a new transition from Saleh’s 33-year staff at Independent schools, Al He said five labour cities are sible to fix a minimum wage for Mansour Hadi announced on government as part of a United rule after he was forced to step Sharq reports. coming up in Qatar and a study workers since Qatar has a free Friday, thwarting his efforts to Nations-brokered deal following down in 2012 following mass The human resource law has is under way to assess the housing economy that functions on the end the country’s political crisis. the Houthis’ entry into Sanaa on street protests. been amended with new job requirements of the burgeoning basis of demand and supply rules. The group said Hadi’s choice September 21 after defeating rival Underscoring Western and Gulf grades and revisions in the pay labour force in the country. Once On complaints about the high fees of cabinet ministers “dashed political factions in battle. Arab concerns over stability in structure of non-teaching staff, work on all the housing projects is charged by manpower agencies, hopes and did not abide by what Both the Houthis and the GPC Yemen, Al Qaeda in the Arabian the daily said, quoting an SEC completed, it will solve the issue of the Minister said this issue was was agreed upon”. Adding to were angered by a United Nations Peninsula said it had attempted to source. The decision follows scattered labour accommodations. discussed during a meeting with Hadi’s troubles, his own politi- Security Council decision on kill the US ambassador, Matthew a major rise in the salaries of Addressing the meeting, the representatives of the agencies. cal party the General People’s Friday to subject Saleh and two Tueller, planting two bombs on Independent school teachers Minister said, the proposed THE PENINSULA Congress ousted him as its leader of the Shia movement’s leaders Thursday outside his residence. implemented last year. amendments in the law will Continued on page 12 before itself rejecting his cabinet, to asset freezes and travel bans. REUTERS THE PENINSULA SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME WCMC-Q unveils 6-year medical education plan Premedical, medical programmes integrated DOHA: Students at Weill One of the aims of the integrated Cornell Medical College in Qatar programme is to build upon and (WCMC-Q) w ill no longer have to go enhance WCMC-Q’s already strong through a separate admission proc- reputation for producing medi- ess to make the transition from the cal graduates who are able to gain two-year premedical programme to acceptance to post-graduation resi- the four-year medical programme, dency training programs at elite hos- as result of a new system. pitals all over the world. WCMC-Q The campus has announced a graduates have placed on residency restructuring of its curriculum that programmes at top-level institutions will see its premedical and medical pro- that include Johns Hopkins Hospital, grammes integrated into one cohesive NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, six-year medical education programme. Cleveland Clinic and Hamad Medical As a result of the integration, a Corporation, among many others. single admission process will deter- Students at WCMC-Q benefit mine entrance to a six-year medical from a wide network of academic and education program and students will personal support mechanisms, which Participants listening to Dr Moustafa Hamdy (inset) during the conference. progress through the course accord- allow the college to offer a personal- ing to advancement criteria, which ised education that meets the needs include academic performance, pro- and interests of each individual. fessionalism and commitment to the Dr Sheikh added: “We believe HMC meet discusses breast cancer prevention profession of medicine. these measures will result in an Students who successfully com- extremely high level of academic plete the six-year programme are performance and a high retention DOHA: Preventative measures can go a or ovarian cancers have occurred in the together as a society.” awarded the Cornell University rate of students through the six-year long way in reducing the risk of develop- same family, breast and ovarian cancers Dr Hamdy advised that people should Doctor of Medicine degree – the program. This is a very exciting time ing hereditary cancer, according to health have occurred in the same woman, or male learn to openly communicate about breast same qualification awarded to Cornell for WCMC-Q and we are looking experts. breast cancer runs in the family.” cancer. “Many people are silent about it or students who complete their studies forward to seeing our next intake of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Dr Al Bader stressed that the risk of they try to ignore it — like it is taboo. We in the United States. students flourish on the new six-year recently hosted the annual Breast Cancer developing HBOC can be reduced with dif- need to realise that ignoring it will not solve Dr Javaid Sheikh, Dean of medical program.” Conference 2014 to raise awareness about ferent kinds of strategies such as lifestyle the problem. It is much better to discuss the WCMC-Q, said: “This important Students who are applying now breast cancer prevention, its early diagnosis, changes and chemoprevention. Regular sur- risks and manage them, rather than wait for innovation preserves the content, aca- to the WCMC-Q premedical pro- detection and management. veillance is also important. a cancer to progress, making it much more demic rigor and quality of our highly gramme will automatically be The focus of the conference this year “There are preventative measures that complicated and more difficult to treat.” regarded premedical and medical pro- reviewed for admission to the new, was hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can be put in place to reduce the risk of HMC operates a specialised High Risk grammes, while providing additional integrated six-year curriculum. (HBOC), which is an inherited genetic con- hereditary cancer developing, for example Clinic at the NCCCR, which is dedicated to flexibility to our students and at the Additional details will be available dition through which a potential cancer risk surgery and some other therapies.