ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 19 May 2013 9 Rajab 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5704 Price: QR2 Alessa Atletico stun Industries to Real to win enter Qatar Spanish Cup Business | 17 Sport | 25 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 New authority Al Rayyan win Emir Cup to monitor food safety Draft law sets tough standards DOHA: Qatar hopes to set up Among a string of other ambi- a Food Safety Authority and tious plans of the SCH this year enforce a law dedicated exclu- is to begin training courses for sively to ensuring that all general practitioners in the area locally produced and imported of occupational health. foodstuff meet strict health The SCH is coordinating with standards and are safe for the Ministry of Labor to finalise consumption. a strategy to ensure occupational The government has given the health and safety for low-income go-ahead to form the above-said single workers whose influx has authority and the Supreme Council been increasing due to a slew of Health (SCH), regulator of pub- of mega development projects lic and private healthcare facilities being launched for the 2022 FIFA in the country, has the draft of the World Cup. Hamad Medical proposed food safety law ready. Corporation (HMC), for its part, The draft, as well as the planned is going on a recruitment spree organisational structure of the this year and hopes to hire as The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani hands over the Emir Cup trophy to Al Rayyan skipper Fabio Cesar at Khalifa International proposed food safety authority, is many as 1,700 nurses, among other Stadium in Doha yesterday. Al Rayyan beat Al Sadd 2-1 to win the final of the Emir Cup, the most popular football tournament in the coun- to be submitted by the SCH for medical staff, including physicians try. A packed Khalifa Stadium saw Al Rayyan score two quick goals in the first eight minutes and then defend stoutly to land the prized catch. the necessary approvals from the and allied professionals. More stories and pictures on pages 27 and 28. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) higher-ups anytime this year. In 2011 and 2012, HMC recruited The SCH’s annual report for 160 physicians, 894 nursing and 2012 released recently says that 866 allied health professionals, the Council has developed new according to the annual report. policies for food safety across dif- The corporation that runs pri- Private sector to manage six health centres ferent government sectors and mary healthcare centers (PHCs) received the green signal from the has projected that by this year-end ministry to set up a food safety clinical staff at the PHCs will grow DOHA: The Supreme Council Two new branches of the well as several health centres by will also develop a Private Sector authority. Currently, a national by a considerable 82 percent. of Health (SCH) is planning Medical Commission to be set 2015 which, it had said, will be Engagement Strategy for effective level joint food monitoring com- The SCH, HMC and the PHCs to hand over management of up by 2015 will also be operated operated by the private sector. public-private communication, mittee operates under the SCH had a combined workforce of three hospitals and six primary by private companies, says the SCH is working on a project says the report. which has members from differ- 14,280 last year, up from 12,360 health centres to the private report. to develop a Private Sector The number of hospital beds ent government ministries and in 2011, data given by the annual sector by 2015, according to The SCH has already Involvement Strategy to iden- outside Doha will triple by 2015 agencies, including the Ministry of report suggest. THE PENINSULA SCH’s annual report released announced plans to establish tify areas for more private sector compared to 2011. Municipality and Urban Planning. Continued on page 6 last week. three workers-only hospitals as involvement in health sector and THE PENINSULA Qatar Holding Mowasalat launches eyeing stake in Versace ticket vending machine DOHA: Mowasalat has MILAN: Qatar Holding and an installed the first Ticket Italian state-controlled invest- Vending Machine (TVM) at ment fund are interested in the main bus station in Al investing in Italian fashion Ghanem which offers top-ups house Versace, Il Sole 24 Ore for Karwa smart cards used by said yesterday. bus passengers. The Qatar sovereign fund is The machine has been put up “carefully looking at” Versace, the as a pilot project to assess cus- Italian daily said, citing financial tomer response. sources. A study is under way to assess The paper cited market the need for introducing the serv- rumours as saying the fund was ice in other areas of the country, flanked by FSI, the Italian stra- Mowasalat said yesterday. tegic investment fund owned by Only top-ups are now available state financing company Cassa at the TVM. However, the study Depositi e Prestiti. will explore the possibility of add- In November, Qatar Holding ing a new feature that will enable signed a joint venture agreement sale of new cards and payment with FSI to invest in Italian com- through credit cards. panies in sectors including food, The TVM is a user-friendly Passengers line up before the ticket fashion and luxury. smart device to recharge smart vending machine at Al Ghanem bus Il Sole said that there were cards on a 24/7 basis, providing station. some 10 other expressions of fast and secure top-up transac- interest for Versace besides that tions. The touch-screen is easy machine does not have a refund of Qatar and FSI.But the paper to use and the device offers voice feature, customers have been added things were at an early assistance to customers under- advised to pay only the amount stage and that the Versace own- taking the transactions. to be used. ers had not decided yet whether The machine can operate in The TVM operates in two to sell a minority stake. FSI said temperatures in the range of languages — Arabic and English it did not comment on market -10°C to 70°C. — and the addition of more lan- rumours. Versace was not imme- The machine accepts QR1, 5, 10, guages will be considered in future diately available for a comment. 50 and 100 notes without a limit if needed, the company said. REUTERS to the total amount. Since the THE PENINSULA Saudi woman conquers Everest JEDDAH: A Saudi woman, severely restricted, her proud now resting,” Hassan Muharraq Raha Muharraq, yesterday father said. told AFP. reached the summit of Everest, “She reached the summit of “She is very happy and we, the the world’s highest peak, in a Everest on Saturday morning. family, are very happy with her first for the conservative coun- We have been able to contact her achievement, which was not easy.” try where women’s sports are and she is very exhausted and AFP SUNDAY 19 MAY 2013 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Educate A Child gets new global partners Qatar Airways and Jazz at Lincoln Center to promote Sheikha Moza’s drive to help 61m out-of-school kids NEW YORK/DOHA: Qatar organisations to seek out new Airways and Jazz at Lincoln and innovative ways of provid- Center have become the new ing education. worldwide partners of the In the past six months alone, Educate A Child (EAC) initia- the initiative has given 600,000 tive, that aims to ensure every children the opportunity to fulfil child in the world access to their right to primary education, quality education. which would otherwise have Qatar Airways and Jazz at been denied to them because Lincoln Center will both serve of poverty, discrimination or as partners to raise awareness conflict. about the EAC programme and Educate A Child was its objectives. founded as a direct result of This global partnership was H H Sheikha Moza’s mandate launched at a dinner reception as a Unesco Special Envoy on at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Basic and Higher Education, Thursday which was attended by a United Nations Millennium H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Development Goal Advocate and among other dignitaries. a Steering Committee member The dinner was followed by of UN Secretary-General Ban an evening of world-class music, Ki-moon’s Global Education featuring a performance by the First initiative. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Flying to over 125 destina- Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer, Akbar Al Baker (second left), sheds light on the Educate A Child programme at a press conference in New York City. with Wynton Marsalis with spe- tions around the world, Qatar cial guest Chick Corea. Airways has pledged to provide Launched by H H Sheikha food, cargo, and personal trans- Airways Chief Executive Officer matches our spirit and ambition qatarairways.com and social Committee member at the Qatar Moza bint Nasser in November port services for the programme Akbar Al Baker said: “We believe as an organisation. media channels. Foundation Endowment, Marcio last year, Educate A Child as well as promoting awareness that global aviation can bridge Qatar Airways will use its The press conference was Barbosa, CEO of Education addresses the plight of 61 million of EAC and the plight of the communities and people to gal- communication platforms to attended by several prominent Above All, Mohammed Al Naimi, out-of-school children around 61m out-of-school children in vanise support for causes that reach the airline’s global pas- personalities associated with executive committee member of the world, who are denied access the world through its in-flight affect individuals across every senger base, showcasing the Educate A Child, including Dr Education Above All Foundation, to quality primary education.