ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 26 December 2013 22 Safar 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5925 Price: QR2 New identity for Last minute goal Ezdan Holding, helps Qatar edge subsidiaries Palestine 1-0 Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives message from Sudan President Qatar expects Healthcare budget surplus of QR80bn DOHA: Qatar is expected facilities to to post a budget surplus of over QR80bn ($21.97bn) in the current fiscal year as the budget was based on an oil price of $65 per bar- be expanded rel while the average crude prices in the international markets have been ruling at $105, financial experts and Specialised hospitals to come up economists told Al Sharq yesterday. DOHA: Qatar will see a mas- the past years has made such The surplus estimates were sive expansion of health care expansion a necessity. actually QR7.4bn (based on facilities in the next few years, The Minister said the Public an oil price of $65 per barrel) including several specialised Works Authority (Ashghal) will in the current financial year, hospitals to treat life-threaten- hand over the new hospitals while in the previous budget ing diseases that are relevant to under construction at the Hamad the surplus estimated was the country. Medical City by the end of 2014 The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani receiving a message from Sudanese President Omar Hassan QR27.7bn. However, setting up of spe- and the facilities will be ready for Al Bashir. The message was handed over by Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti yesterday. THE PENINSULA cialised facilities is based on a operation by mid-2015. thorough review of the diseases The QR2.13bn hospital project and health requirements of the include the new Women’s citizens, the Minister of Public Hospital, the Ambulatory and Health H E Abdullah bin Khalid Minimally Invasive Surgical Al Qahtani has said. Hospital, the Physical Medicine Brotherhood declared a terrorist group The Minister said that the next and Rehabilitation Hospital, few years will see completion of and the Translational Research CAIRO: Egypt’s military- the restive Sinai Peninsula. the Brotherhood to have avoided several major projects in health Institute and Bio-Bank. installed rulers declared the “All of Egypt was horrified by prison told AFP the Islamists sector that are currently in differ- Asked if the new hospital Muslim Brotherhood of ousted the ugly crime committed by the would continue with their ent phases of construction. They projects once completed would president Mohammed Mursi a Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday protests. include an additional hospital reduce the number of citizens “terrorist” organisation yester- morning, when it blew up the “The protests will continue, in Al Khor, a new cancer hospi- seeking treatment abroad, the day, signalling a wider crack- Daqhaleya police headquarters,” certainly,” said Ibrahim Munir, tal and another for dental care, Minister explained that the coun- down after blaming it for a the cabinet said in a statement. a member of the group’s execu- besides expansion of the Heart try had a clear policy on estab- deadly police station bombing “The government has decided to tive council who is in exile in Hospital. The new hospitals at the lishing specialised clinics and claimed by jihadists. Egypt Army Chief Former president declare the Muslim Brotherhood London, adding the move was Hamad Medical City will be ready hospitals. “We have reviewed A Muslim Brotherhood leader Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Mohammed Mursi movement a terrorist organisa- “illegitimate”. for operation by mid-2015 while the profiles of each person sent lambasted the “drastic” deci- It lumps together Al Qaeda- tion,” it said, referring to ter- “This is an attempt to frame construction of three workers’ abroad for treatment to know sion and vowed the movement inspired militants who have rorism clauses in the country’s the Brotherhood.” hospitals and 17 new health cent- why he had been sent and to see if would keep up its protests across killed scores of policemen and penal code. Mursi’s supporters, who con- ers is in progress, the Minister it is possible to provide that treat- Egypt, despite the move which is soldiers with the more moderate “Members who continue to tinue to organise near-daily said, talking to the media during ment here,” said the Minister. unprecedented for the 85-year- Brotherhood movement, although belong to this group or organi- demonstrations demanding his a visit to the Hamad Medical City “If the number of patients old movement. authorities have provided no proof sation following the release of reinstatement, insist they are on Tuesday. (with certain disease) is high we The decision is likely to accel- the groups are related. this statement will be punished committed to peaceful protest. “This means that the forthcom- will try to establish a facility (to erate a crackdown on the move- The announcement comes a according to the law,” said the But their demonstrations have ing health projects will be bigger treat that disease) here. If it is ment that has killed more than day after a suicide car bombing statement. The Brotherhood has dwindled in size due to the secu- than the existing ones. This poses not feasible to set up specialised 1,000 people, mostly Islamists, of a police station killed 15 people, condemned yesterday’s power- rity crackdown, and civilian oppo- a major challenge to us,” said the sections, it is preferable to send in street clashes and seen thou- in an attack condemned by the ful bomb attack in the city of nents who oppose the Islamists Minister. He said a rapid growth the patients abroad,” he added. sands imprisoned since Mursi’s Brotherhood and claimed by an Mansoura, north of Cairo. often attack the rallies. AFP in the country’s population over THE PENINSULA overthrow by the military in July. Al Qaeda-inspired group based in One of the few senior leaders of See also page 7 Wave lash Four-year-old Charity plans drive against bank debt run over by car DOHA: A local charitable RAF (Sheikh Thani Bin print and electronic media as well DOHA: A four-year-child suf- organisation has plans to start Abdullah Foundation for as videos showcasing the nega- fered skull fractures after being an awareness drive against ris- Humanitarian Services) said tive impact of debt and luxurious run over by a speeding car here ing consumerism in the Qatari campaigns will be on for a month lifestyle. yesterday. The child was caught community that has an increas- highlighting the social curse of Much money sought through unawares while playing in the ing number of families trapped debt taken just to splurge on bank loan is spent on entertain- street when the car hit him. in a bank debt spiral. unwanted luxuries, targeting ment, RAF said, implying over- The police are looking for the Studies have earlier shown that Qatari and other GCC commu- seas trips made by many Qatari motorist who sped away after some three-fourths of Qatari fam- nities here. and GCC families for shopping leaving the child severly injured, ilies are in debt and keep strug- The CEO of RAF, Dr Mohamed and fun—mostly with the money reports Al Sharq. The boy is gling to fight their way out of a Saleh Ibrahim, said the cam- sought from banks as loan. battling for life in the intensive vicious debt cycle. paigns will be launched using the THE PENINSULA critical care unit (ICCU) of the accident and emergency unit of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the daily said. THE PENINSULA Snowden worried Erdogan replaces Saudi Arabia recalls 10 ministers 400,000 Toyota cars over loss of privacy ISTANBUL: Turkey’s Prime RIYADH: Saudi Arabia yes- Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan terday announced the recall of LONDON: Former US National — microphones and video cam- said he replaced 10 cabinet min- more than 400,000 Toyota cars Security Agency contractor eras, TVs that watch us are noth- isters, half of his total roster, for alleged problems with unin- Edward Snowden, who revealed ing compared to what we have after three ministers resigned tended acceleration, a statement details of electronic surveil- available today.” over a high-level graft inquiry from the country’s ministry of lance by American and British “We have sensors in our pock- yesterday. commerce and industry said. spy services, warned of the dan- ets that track us everywhere we The replaced ministers It said the vehicles will be gers posed by a loss of privacy in go. Think about what this means included EU Minister Egemen equipped with a break override a message broadcast to Britain for the privacy of the average per- Bagis, who was allegedly named system to “reduce the risk of on Christmas Day. son,” he said. in the corruption probe but had sudden unintended acceleration In a two-minute video recorded “A child born today will grow not resigned yet, and key posi- without the ability to stop or con- in Moscow, where Snowden has up with no conception of privacy tions such as the Economy and trol it.” been granted temporary asylum, at all,” said Snowden. justice ministers. The ministry said 10 models, he spoke of concerns over surveil- “They’ll never know what it One of the three ministers manufactured between 2005 and lance and appeared to draw com- means to have a private moment called on Erdogan to step down in 2010, would be recalled. parison with the dystopian tale to themselves, an unrecorded, a major escalation of the biggest In October, a US court found “1984” which described a fictional unanalysed thought.