Home | 4 Business | 17 Sport | 28 18 missions to Al Sada participates El Jaish crush Al participate in in 17th GECF Arabi; Al Gharafa Futsal tournament meeting end win drought The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2015 • 10 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6622 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir starts Qatar launches Latin America tour today DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim diabetes strategy bin Hamad Al Thani will begin today a tour of Latin American countries including Cuba, Mexico Seven-year plan focuses on public awareness and Venezuela. During the tour, the Emir will By Fazeena Saleem The annual health plan will help individu- hold talks with leaders and sen- als track their health status and set person- ior officials of the countries on DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health als goals in nutrition, physical activity and bilateral relations and issues of (SCH) has launched the Qatar National smoking cessation. The strategy also aims to common interest. A number of Diabetes Strategy to raise public aware- promote research and studies on the nature agreements will be signed. ness and seek preventive measures against and prevalence of diabetes in the country. Minister of Public Health H E Abdullah bin Khalid Al Qahtani (centre), Assistant Secretary the disease that affects a major segment of Awareness and prevention campaigns General on Policy Affairs at Supreme Council of Health, Faleh Mohamed Hussain (left), and QNA Qatar’s population. will be delivered through multiple chan- Assistant Secretary General for Medical Affairs at Supreme Council of Health, Dr Saleh bin Minister of Public Health H E Abdullah nels including schools, workplaces, mosques Ali Al Marri, during the launch of Qatar National Diabetes Strategy on Thursday. (ABDUL BASIT) bin Khalid Al Qahtani announced the launch and social media. The strategy will support We don’t target of the seven-year strategy themed ‘Prevent- health care professionals to deliver the National Diabetes Strategy will be a pow- (HMC) in collaboration with the Qatar ing Diabetes Together’ at a press conference “right care at the right place at the right erful tool to reduce the impact of diabetes Diabetes Association published in 2014 civilians in on Thursday. time.” on the lives of citizens and residents. estimated that the number of new cases The strategy aims to reduce incidence of “The strategy addresses one of the most Under the strategy, a National Diabetes of Type I Diabetes would increase by 25pc Yemen: Coalition diabetes, delay disease progression, deliver important health challenges in the country, Policy Team will be formed between 2016 in five years from 2015 until 2020. high quality of diabetes care and develop which is the high prevalence of diabetes,” Al and 2017. It will set a national agenda for Another study in 2011 by research- RIYADH: The Saudi-led an information technology and diabetes Qahtani told a press conference. awareness and prevention, have a national ers in Qatar found that the prevalence coalition’s combat planning chief research programme. These goals are set “The strategy aims to prevent spread curriculum for patient empowerment, of gestational diabetes is 19pc among yesterday defended the air war to be achieved by 2022. of the disease, and to improve the lives of define guidelines and pathways, develop Qatari women and 14pc among non-Qatari in Yemen against widespread According to the strategy, the target patients, through a framework and commit- Diabetes National Research Agenda, women, and these rates are expected to go international concern about high adult population will be screened for diabe- ment to develop the right tools and effec- develop and deliver diabetes-specific up. The impact of this continued rise will numbers of civilian casualties. tes between 2018 and 2020. People at a risk tive solutions to what has become a national continuing medical education, commence not be restricted to the lives of patients In an exclusive interview with of developing the disease as well as patients issue,” he added. Al Qahtani said that if training on guidelines and pathways and and their families, but will mean a 30pc AFP, the Royal Saudi Air Force will be offered an annual health plan by 2020. not dealt with properly, the number of the prepare and launch a national screening increase in the cost of health services by brigadier general — who cannot All healthcare professionals will receive con- affected is expected to double by 2045. How- programme. 2020. be identified under the military’s tinuing education in diabetes care by 2019. ever, he expressed confidence that Qatar A study by Hamad Medical Corporation THE PENINSULA security restrictions — accused rights groups and other critics of “looking through one eye only”. “They are receiving all the information from the adversary,” he said of Yemen’s Houthi rebels supported by forces loyal to Qatar reiterates commitment to support Syrians ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. “We are sticking to the NEW YORK: Qatar has reiter- Permanent Representative to ian children have benefited from upcoming donors’ conference on represents a global challenge and rules, the international rules and ated its commitment to support the United Nations, Ambassador Qatar’s initiative “Educate a the humanitarian crisis in Syria, must be resolved by dealing with Geneva Convention, first, and law the Syrian people and all interna- H E Sheikha Alya Ahmed bin Saif Child” since 2012. to be held in London in February its causes. She called on the inter- of conflict,” said the brigadier. tional efforts aimed at reaching a Al Thani, said Qatar spared no Qatar also launched an initia- 2016. national community to protect “We don’t deviate from those political settlement in the Syrian effort in providing relief to the tive at the third Donors’ Confer- She emphasised that Qatar will refugees and their right to apply standards,” the brigadier told crisis. displaced and refugees and to ence in Kuwait to set up a joint continue to support all interna- for asylum and respect the princi- AFP during the first visit by a Addressing the 70th session alleviate their suffering. fund for education and profes- tional and regional efforts to deal ple of non-refoulement under the foreign journalist to the coalition’s of the UN General Assembly She said the number of Syr- sional development of displaced with the roots of this problem Refugee Convention of 1951. Since planning and operations cen- meeting to consider agenda item ian residents in Qatar has risen Syrian youth and children, the and the roots of terrorism. She the beginning of the Syrian crisis, tre at King Salman Air Base in 130 — “Global Awareness of the to over 54,000 from 20,000 at the Ambassador added. Sheikha said that it will not hesitate to Qatar has warned of its effect on Riyadh. “We don’t target civil- Tragedies of Irregular Migrants beginning of the crisis. Qatar, Alya hailed Kuwait’s hosting of work with partners to alleviate the humanitarian situation. ians,” he said. in the Mediterranean Basin she pointed out, attached great the conference that largely con- the suffering of civilians, refu- Continued on page 5 See also page 7 with Specific Emphasis on Syr- importance to Syrian children’s tributed to supporting Syrian gees and the displaced. Sheikha ian Asylum Seekers” — Qatar’s education. About 600,000 Syr- people, and looked forward to the Alya said that the refugee crisis QNA AFP Barcelona beat Real Madrid QR25m Syria Prosecution to Brussels in lockdown relief package appeal Villaggio on fear of terror attacks DOHA: The Sheikh Eid Bin fire verdict BRUSSELS: Brussels was in public gatherings until Novem- Mohammed Al Thani Charity terror lockdown yesterday, with ber 30, the start of a UN climate Foundation has allocated about DOHA: The Prosecution will a gunman still on the run after summit. Turkey has detained a QR25m for the implementation of appeal against the verdict of the the Paris attacks which have rat- Belgian citizen of Moroccan ori- a package of urgent relief projects Court of Appeals in the Villag- tled nerves throughout Europe. gin, Ahmet Dahmani, 26, who is for Syrian refugees and displaced gio fire case, reports Qatar News The Belgian capital closed believed to have helped choose to help them through the winter. Agency (QNA). its metro system and shuttered the sites for the Paris attacks, The Foundation said in a press The Attorney General, H E Dr shopping centres as a terror alert the Dogan news agency reported release yesterday that the relief is Ali bin Fetais Al Marri, yesterday was raised to its highest level over yesterday. being implemented in cooperation asked the prosecution to move the reports of an “imminent threat” The UN Security Council on with its partners within Syria and Court of Cassation (Qatar’s high- of a gun and bomb attack similar Friday authorised nations to institutions in the field of refugee est court) and appeal the decision to the horror seen in Paris last “take all necessary measures” to response. of the Court of Appeals in the Vil- week. fight Islamic State (IS) jihadists Continued on page 3 Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez (left) scores past Real laggio Mall fire case. Brussels-based jihadists are and other extremist groups The Court of Appeals had increasingly at the heart of the after a wave of attacks across Madrid’s defender Sergio Ramos during the Spanish league El Clasico QNA acquitted all the defendants in Paris investigation and police have the world left hundreds dead in football match at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid yesterday. the case. multiplied raids in the city’s poor- a matter of weeks.