ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 17 April 2014 17 Jumadal II 1435 - Volume 19 Number 6038 Price: QR2 QIB Q1 profit Atletico Madrid grows 15 win LFP-Aspire percent Challenge Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Hospitals, clinics told Sheikha Moza addresses family conference to upgrade services Second phase of health insurance ‘Seha’ from April 30 DOHA: With the Supreme the hospital or clinic to the pay- In the second phase, the scheme Council of Health (SCH) prepar- roll of the staff have been taken will provide comprehensive health ing to launch the second phase into consideration. They (hospi- insurance coverage for inpatient of the re-branded National tals and clinics) agreed to the fees and out patient services includ- Health Insurance Scheme on and joined, after that they can’t ing preventative care, emergency April 30, a senior SCH official complain. Joining the provid- treatment, physiotherapy, occu- has asked hospitals and clinics ers’ network is not something we pational therapy, speech therapy, to upgrade themselves to meet force, it’s optional,” he said. long-term care, radiology, oph- the requirements of the scheme. Phase one of the scheme was thalmology, laboratory testing The SCH yesterday announced launched in July last year, cover- and prescription medicines. H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser speaks at the opening of the Doha International Conference on the Family, re-branding of the scheme under ing Qatari females aged 12 and “There is no need for registra- under the theme ‘Empowering Families: A Pathway to Development’, yesterday. See also page 5 the name Seha, meaning “health”. above for gynaecology, obstetrics, tion for the insurance scheme. The second phase will cover all maternity and related women’s Any Qatari national can walk Qatari nationals of all ages, health conditions. into a hospital or clinic which is both men and women, Dr Faleh The Women’s Hospital, Al within the network and submit Mohamed Hussain Ali, Acting Emadi Hospital, Al Ahli Hospital, the ID and access the services,” Qatar residents prefer news to CEO of the National Health Doha Clinic, Al Wakra Hospital, Al said Faleh Hussain. insurance Company, told a news Khor Hospital, the Cuban Hospital “Majority of services are covered conference yesterday. and Al Hayat Medical Centre were in the second phase with the excep- Seha also launched its services providing the service during the tion of plastic surgery. The National entertainment on TV: NU-Q survey on the social networking sites first phase of the scheme. Health Insurance Company will yesterday. Citing a public survey The official said some provid- announce the new list of providers DOHA: After Lebanon, Qatar of respondents preferring to watch with nationally representative on the first phase of the scheme, ers had received high number of next week before the second stage has the second largest number news than other genres on TV fol- samples of adults aged 18 or over the official claimed that majority patients and that was a challenge of the scheme starts to get imple- of people who prefer to watch lowed by Qatar (44 percent). It’s also who answered questions on a wide of the beneficiaries were satisfied during the first phase. “Some pro- mented,” he added. news on television channels than interesting to note that in Qatar, range of topics, including the role with the services. viders complained of a rush dur- Seha yesterday started its entertainment programmes, news (42 percent) is the most pop- of entertainment media in their He said more hospitals and ing the implementation of the first Facebook page and Twitter according to a survey conducted ular form of online entertainment, lives and related cultural attitudes. clinics will join the provider net- phase. We had already informed account for people to access infor- by the Northwestern University followed by comedy (39 percent). Qatar has the lowest percent- work in the second phase. There them that many people would come, mation about the service. Public in Qatar (NU-Q) whose results While Arabic is by far the age of nationals who watch TV is no compulsion on hospitals and may be they were not prepared and can contact and interact on its were released yesterday. most frequently used language programmes produced in their clinics to join the scheme, but once faced some difficulty,” he said. Facebook page ‘SehaQatar’ and The six-nation survey, entitled for watching TV, Qatar (39 per- own country. Only 51 percent they have joined, they will have to “Sometimes they (the patients) follow Twitter on @SehaQatar. ‘Entertainment Media Use in the cent) has the highest percentage of of Qataris in the survey watch abide by the rules and regulations. had to wait long to get an appoint- “We are launching a presence on Middle East’, was conducted in nationals who watch TV in English, Qatar-produced programmes When pointed out that some ment. It is due to the appointment social media to better communicate Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, followed closely by Saudi Arabia (38 compared to Egypt (100 percent), hospitals and clinics were com- system. If it had taken five to six with scheme members, to answer Egypt, Tunisia and the United percent), the UAE (25 percent), Lebanon (98 percent), Tunisia plaining about a low fee structure hours for a certain process in any queries people may have and Arab Emirates. According to offi- Lebanon (19 percent), Tunisia (10 (98 percent), the UAE (94 per- under the scheme, the official said the past, now we can’t expect it to keep the public informed and cials, 6,035 face-to-face interviews percent) and Egypt (two percent). cent) and KSA (88 percent). all financial expenditures were to happen in ten minutes. But updated about the scheme and its were held as part of the study. The survey was conducted This is perhaps because fewer taken into account when the fee if there is a rush then it’s the services,” said Hussain Ali. In the category called ‘News as in partnership with Doha Film programmes originate in Qatar. structure was finalised. responsibility of the provider to THE PENINSULA a favourite genre of TV, Lebanon Institute (DFI) from January 27 THE PENINSULA “From the cost of the land of handle the situation,” he added. Continued on page 4 has come on top with 51 percent through February 26 this year Continued on page 4 Real Madrid beat Barcelona Six killed, 280 missing in Korea ferry accident JINDO, South Korea: South Korean coastguards and navy divers resumed their search today for nearly 280 people still missing after a ferry capsized. They will also be seeking answers to many unanswered ques- tions surrounding Wednesday’s accident, notably what caused the Sewol vessel to list and then flip over entirely, leaving only a small section of its hull above water. Of 462 passengers on board the ferry, 179 have been rescued and six people are known to have died. Nearly 340 of the passengers were teenagers and teachers from the same school l on a field trip to Jeju island. Gareth Bale (left) of Real Madrid vies for the ball with Javier Mascherano REUTERS of Barcelona during the Copa del Rey match yesterday. Real won the See also page 12 match 2-1. See also page 28 Man dies of MERS, five South Sudan loses oil more infections in Jeddah town Bentiu to rebels JEDDAH: A Saudi man has died of MERS in JUBA: South Sudan’s army said yesterday rebels the western city of Jeddah, where authorities had wrested control of the key oil town of Bentiu, have sought to calm fears over the spreading one of the most bitterly contested regions in the respiratory illness, the health ministry said four-month-long conflict. The town is the first yesterday. major settlement to have been retaken in a renewed The ministry said five more people were infected offensive by forces of rebel leader Riek Machar. with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, includ- “We are moving forward to retake the town from ing two medics, all in Jeddah. the forces of Riek Machar, who entered the town on The latest death of a 52-year-old brings to 71 the Tuesday after our forces withdrew,” army spokes- total number of people to have died from MERS, out man Philip Aguer said, accusing the rebels of “com- of 205 infections in Saudi Arabia, it added. mitting atrocities.” “The rebels were killing innocent Local media reported Wednesday at least four people as they entered, there were killings at the doctors at Jeddah’s King Fahd hospital resigned hospital, in the market and mosque,” Aguer added, this week after refusing to treat patients affected although the reports could not be independently by MERS, apparently out of fear of catching the confirmed. virus. AFP AFP See also page 10 THURSDAY 17 APRIL 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Cabinet fixes registration fees PM meets Interpol chief Emir, PM send for lawyers, law companies condolences to Kuwait DOHA: The Prime Minister effective after 90 days of its issue DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh and Interior Minister H E in the official gazette. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser The session then endorsed yesterday sent a cable of con- bin Khalifa Al Thani yester- Qatar’s participation in the 15th dolences to the Emir of Kuwait day chaired the weekly Cabinet GCC exhibition in the UAE on H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad meeting at the Emiri Diwan. May 26-30. Al Jaber Al Sabah following The Deputy Prime Minister It approved a proposal of the death of Sheikh Sabah and Minister of State for Cabinet the Labour and Social Affairs Nasser Al Saud Al Sabah.