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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Qatar set for Superbike season finale Sport | 24 Tuesday 28 October 2014 • 4 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6232 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM meets Croatian minister Qatar becomes Private firms founding member of AIIB BEIJING: Qatar’s Ambassador to run some to China Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri participated in the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for establishing the Asian health centres Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He signed the MoU which makes Qatar as a found- ing member of the bank. 19 new facilities in three years Following the signing ceremony, Al Mansouri and representatives DOHA: Financing of primary competition in health care serv- of AIIB’s founding members met health care centres may see a ices may provide the opportunity Chinese President Xi Jinping. major change with implemen- to focus on efficiency and cost A ministerial meeting for tation of the National Health savings to make the organisa- AIIB’s founding members was held Insurance Scheme and pri- tion more effective in meeting its after the signing. It approved the vately operated health centres objectives,” said the report. appointment of Jin Liqun, Head of will be allowed to compete with However, budgetary allocations The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met yesterday Working Group for Establishment the state-backed facilities, says for primary health centres are with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Ranko Ostojic and the delegation accompanying of AIIB, as secretary-general of the just- released annual report expected to increase by 130 per- him. They reviewed bilateral relations particularly in security fields. interim multilateral secretariat. of the Primary Health care cent in three years, from the cur- QNA Corporation (PHCC). rent 1.5bn to 3.5bn in 2015-2016, “For the next two years we according to the report. expect the organisation’s budget The report highlights PHCC’s Saudi warns requirements to continue to be achievements over the past one Tunisia’s Ennahda concedes residents as funded by the government, but year and the ongoing and future starting from the year 2015–2016 projects. this mechanism may be changed There is a plan for commission- MERS cases rise as a result of the health insurance ing 19 new health centres in the defeat to secularists in polls system implementation,” said the next three years starting with six RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s 2013-2014 report. health centres (Al Karaana, Al TUNIS: Tunisia’s Ennahda repeated the party’s call for a new had observers at polling stations Health Ministry yesterday From 2015-2016, the govern- Ghuwairia, Umm Salal, Al Roda, party, the first Islamist move- coalition including Ennahda. “We to oversee the initial counts, urged residents to renew pre- ment funding may be limited to Al Nuam and Al Muntazah) ment to secure power after the are calling once again for the for- allowing them to tally results cautions against Middle East manpower and operations and which will be completed next year. 2011 “Arab Spring” revolts, con- mation of a unity government in unofficially. Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) capital expenditures may have Starting with Al Daayen ceded defeat yesterday in elec- the interest of the country.” Ennahda, which espouses a after a rise in new cases of the to be funded through alternative health centre in April this year, tions that are set to make its Earlier, a party source said pre- pragmatic form of political Islam, disease since early September. sources. an appointment system has been main secular rival the strongest liminary tallies showed the secu- won Tunisia’s first free election in The Health Ministry has “Within the framework of the implemented with an average 12 force in parliament. lar party had won 80 seats in the 2011 after Ben Ali fled protests announced a total of 23 confirmed Health Insurance system, pri- -15 minutes consultation time. Official results from Sunday’s 217-member assembly, ahead of 67 against corruption and repres- new cases this month of the virus, vately operated health care cen- Dental and specialist clinics at elections —the second parliamen- secured by Ennahda. sion, and went into exile in Saudi which causes coughing, fever and tres will be allowed to operate and all 21 health centres have been tary vote since Tunisians set off “According to the preliminary Arabia. sometimes fatal pneumonia. In will compete directly with PHCC. set up. uprisings across much of the Arab results, we are in the lead and in The party formed a coalition addition to the 12 cases detected It is not known how competition By the end of this year, there World by overthrowing autocrat a comfortable position,” one Nidaa government with two secular in September, this brings the total will impact PHCC financially,” will be home care services in place Zine El Abidine Ben Ali — were Tounes official said, without confirm- partners but had to stand aside number in the kingdom to 777 said the report. for everyone in Qatar meeting the still to be announced. ing figures given by the first source. in the crisis that erupted over the since it was identified in 2012, of There is a pilot programme eligibility criteria. But a senior official at Ennahda, One of the most secular Arab murder of two opposition leaders which 331 died. to have two health centres pri- PHCC is in the process of which ruled in a coalition until countries, Tunisia has been hailed by Islamist militants. “The Health Ministry... urged vately managed by internationally developing a Patient Helpline. it was forced to make way for a as an example of political com- During campaigning Ennahda adherence to preventative meas- known providers. The SCH had As an interim measure a Central caretaker government during a promise after overcoming a crisis cast itself as a party that learned ures to curb the spread of the dis- earlier said that new health cen- Operator service for general political crisis at the start of this between the secular and Islamist from its mistakes, but Nidaa ease, and to avoiding contact with tres being constructed exclusively inquiries has been implemented, year, acknowledged defeat by the movements and approving a new Tounes appeared to have capi- infected camels, and an emphasis for labourers will be operated by which will eventually be used for secular Nidaa Tounes party. constitution this year that allowed talised on criticism that it had on measures to combat infection private firms. appointment. The call centre will “We have accepted this result, the elections. mismanaged the economy and in health facilities,” said a state- “The possible changes in the evolve into Patient Helpline. and congratulate the win- Electoral authorities were had been lax in tackling hardline ment carried by the Saudi Press budget funding scenario and THE PENINSULA ner Nidaa Tounes,” the official, due to give preliminary results Islamists. Agency. the possibility of having direct Continued on page 6 Lotfi Zitoun, said. However, he later yesterday, but larger parties REUTERS REUTERS Prosecution seeks death for British woman’s killer Rousseff scores narrow DOHA: The prosecution has conservative Qatari society. said the friend. The prosecution report that the victim was urged an appeals court hear- The victim came to this coun- said during interrogation that the sexually assaulted before being win in Brazil election ing a sensational murder case try with faith in its society about main accused admitted he drove put to death, the main accused of a British woman teacher to her well-being and safety, but that her home that morning. told his friend, said Al Raya. RIO DE JANEIRO: Leftist She will start her second four- uphold a lower court’s verdict was breached by the perpetrators According to the main accused, “We, then, drove to Al Wakra. President Dilma Rousseff vowed year term on January 1 facing a On the way, from a supermarket sentencing the main accused to of the crime, so the death sen- after the murder, he went upstairs to reconcile Brazil, reboot the laundry list of challenges: govern- we bought four bags of charcoal death for committing the hei- tence given to the main accused and changed his clothes and later economy and fight corruption ing a polarized country, winning and a digging tool. We went to nous crime. should not be commuted at any asked his friend for car keys. after narrowly winning ree- back the confidence of markets and Al Kharrara Road where there The lower criminal court had cost, said the prosecution. “I, then, wrapped Patterson’s lection on Sunday in the most investors, rebooting the stagnant are lots of abandoned houses. We also sentenced an accomplice of Local Arabic daily Al Raya body in a blanket and put it in divisive race since the return to economy and tackling corruption. went into one of the houses, dug the main accused to three years in reported yesterday that the pros- the back of the car. It was 7am.” democracy in 1985. The 66-year-old, a former left- up the surface, put the body of jail. Both the accused are Qatari ecution gave in the court hair- “I then drove up to Umm Salal Rousseff, the first woman pres- ist guerrilla who was jailed and the victim in and poured charcoal nationals. Lauren Patterson was raising details of the crime during petrol station. Here, I bought a and petrol on it and put it on fire.” ident of the world’s seventh-larg- tortured for fighting the 1964- murdered in cold blood after being a hearing on Sunday.