ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 14 Sport | 22 QA displays ‘Qatar-group’ Nico Rosberg growing links tells IMF they are remains defiant with Turkey at well positioned to in Grand Prix of defence fair. tackle oil woes. Russia title bid. FRIDAY 9 OCTOBER 2015 • 25 Dhul-Hijja 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6578 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets outgoing UK envoy Tenders floated for 12 Family spending Metro station works DOHA: The tendering committee of Qatar Rail has floated tenders for developing its 12 proposed on healthcare metro stations. The rail company is looking for competent con- sultants and contractors to carry out the project. The company will start accepting tender forms from Sunday until October 25, Al Sharq reports. The lowest in Qatar first phase of the Doha Metro project will see the opening of 37 stations. Another 60 stations would be opened in the second phase. A senior official of the company recently said that Seha expansion a major cause: SCH about 50 percent of the 113km-long tunnelling works for Doha Metro have been completed with the help DOHA: Family and individual by companies increased by 13 per- of 21 tunnel boring machines (TBMs). expenditure on health in Qatar cent between 2012 and 2013. The Doha Metro system construction works are is among the lowest in the world, The third reason is imple- phased over two stages. The first phase sees the thanks to easy access to hugely mentation of National Health construction of three out of the four lines (Red, subsidised government health- Insurance Scheme — Seha — Gold, and Green) — and their opening to the care services, Supreme Council which covered all Qatari females public is expected by late 2019. of Health (SCH) data shows. aged above 12 in 2013 and all The east-west Green Line starts from near Qatar is on a par with Qatari citizens by April 2014. the stadium and runs at ground level before Organisation for Economic The report shows direct health descending into a tunnel below Dukhan Highway, Co-operation and Development expenditure of individuals has Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received outgoing British Ambassador Nicholas which turns into Al Luqta Street as it passes (OECD) countries, including some been going down continuously. Hopton at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. The Emir wished Hopton success in his future tasks Education City. of the most advanced nations in During 2012-2013, Qataris spent and bilateral relations further progress. Hopton praised and thanked the Emir and state THE PENINSULA the world. 2.5 percent of their total expendi- officials for cooperation during his tenure. A report by the SCH reveals ture on health while expatriate that family expenditure on health single workers spent 1.5 percent in Qatar has fallen by 20.2 percent against 0.5 percent by expatriate in one year between 2012 and 2013 families. — from QR1.29bn to QR1.03bn. The low premium of the pub- This is in contrast to a steady lic health insurance system is a Pacquiao eyes Doha bout to end career rise in government expenditure major indicator of easy access to on health from QR9.41bn in 2012 healthcare, as it enables citizens BY RAYNALD C RIVERA is a guest at the 2015 AIBA World to QR12.64bn in 2014, a 34.3 per- and expatriates to avail of services Boxing Championships being held cent increase. The direct health at lower cost, said the daily, citing DOHA: Boxing superstar in Doha. expenditure of individuals fell the report. Manny Pacquiao’s career- “It was a nice surprise to see from QR759 in 2012 to QR515 in Expatriate blue-collar workers ending fight may happen in so many Filipinos here, it kind of 2013, Al Sharq reports, quoting are among the biggest benefici- Doha, the ‘People’s Champ’ said felt like a home away from home. from the report. aries enjoying the lowest health yesterday. It’s also great to see the World The report has attributed expenditure due to access to free “It’s not yet confirmed, but that Championship in this region for the fall to the vast coverage of healthcare and increasing avail- is one of the options that Bob the first time. It’s important to primary healthcare services in ability of clinics at work sites. (Arum) and I are talking about. It’s reach out to new generations and the country. This has led to an The OECD countries have possible to hold it here,” Pacquiao new places, which is why I have increase in the number of peo- implemented measures to cut said yesterday. “It’s not yet con- come to Doha to offer my sup- ple using health cards issued by expenditure but the Qatari health firmed whether it would be here or port,” Pacquiao said. Hamad Medical Corporation strategy is not focused on con- in the US,” Pacquiao added. The 36-year-old, who lost to (HMC) and Primary Healthcare trolling expenditure but provid- ”I would love to have my next Mayweather Jr in the world’s rich- Corporation (PHCC) to avail of ing quality. Funding mechanism fight here in Qatar, and my est boxing fight in May, was received government healthcare services in the coming years will function team is now working towards by Yusuf Ali Kazim, President, at nominal fees. from the position of cost manage- that. Whether it will be against Qatar Boxing Federation (QBF) Another reason is expansion of ment, supported by the power of (Britain’s) Amir Khan or Floyd and Dr Ching-kuo Wu, President, health insurance cover for citizens using advanced healthcare tech- Mayweather, I’ll be ready. AIBA. and expatriates. Data from SCH’s nology, said the daily. “I would love to have a rematch Continued on page 3 Fans taking a selfie with boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao at Ali Bin Hamad National Health Accounts of 2013 against Floyd in Qatar,” he added. Al Attiyah Arena in Doha yesterday. SALIM MATARAMKOT shows that health insurance cover THE PENINSULA The eight-division world champion THE PENINSULA Coalition denies striking Yemen wedding party Distribution of new amended ID SANA’A: The Arab coalition but we do not bomb these areas the work of the Houthis, and coast from the Bab Al Mandab cards to Qataris from Sunday has denied that its warplanes at all.” The suspected air strike accused them of trying to divert strait and reached 50km south of targeted a wedding in Yemen’s killed at least 28 people and attention from recent reverses by the port of Al Mokha, Asseri said. DOHA: Distribution of new amended ID cards to Qatari citizens Dhamar, the second alleged wounded 38 others at the wed- targeting civilians and blaming it Separately, a prominent judge will begin on Sunday, Al Sharq reported. The IDs will be available strike on a wedding party in the ding party, witnesses said, even as on the Saudi-led forces. and a senior army officer were at the main building of the passport authority of the Ministry of Arabian Peninsula country in UN peace efforts make headway. The Houthi-run Saba news shot dead by unidentified gunmen Interior during morning and evening shifts and the unified govern- just over a week. The new raid hit a house where agency reported that a coalition on motorcycles in two separate ment services centres in the morning hours. The new ID will be “The coalition did not con- dozens of people were celebrat- air raid in Sanban had killed or incidents, security sources said, issued only in case of loss or expiry of an old ID, said the daily. duct any air strikes in that area. ing on Wednesday evening in wounded dozens of people at a adding that Islamist militants Ongoing fighting between the the town of Sanban in Dhamar wedding celebration and that the were suspected of the killings. THE PENINSULA Houthis and other factions have province, 100km south of Sana’a, toll might exceed 30. Abbas Hassan Al Aqrabi, a been going on in that area. residents said. The Arab coalition began its judge at the Special Criminal “Not every time an explosion or The Houthi-affiliated Al air strikes against the Houthis Court which had jailed militants, Belarussian wins Literature Nobel an attack takes place, it is com- Masirah television said on and their allies, forces loyal to was shot on the street in the STOCKHOLM: Belarussian author Svetlana Alexievich won the mitted by the coalition. We do not Twitter that the wedding was hit former president Ali Abdullah port of Aden. Colonel Jamal Al Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday for her portrayal of the harsh- target civilian areas,” spokesper- by “aggression warplanes”, refer- Saleh, in late March after a push Suqqaf was shot outside his home ness of life in the erstwhile Soviet Union and in her first public son for the coalition, Ahmad Al ring to the coalition. from their northern stronghold in western Aden. Both men died response denounced Russia’s intervention in Ukraine as an “inva- Asiri said. Coalition spokesman Brigadier towards Aden. immediately, the sources said. sion”. The Swedish Academy said Alexievich’s work, which chroni- “We do know that many weap- General Ahmed Asseri said the Coalition forces yesterday cles the lives of Soviet women during World War II as well as the ons are hidden in civilian areas attack in Dhamar was likely also advanced further up the Red Sea AGENCIES consequences of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl and the Soviet military adventure in Afghanistan, was “a monument to suf- fering and courage in our time”.