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Wednesday 3 December 2014 • 11 Safar 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6268 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780

QF Stadium design unveiled Fiscal year to SCH launches start on Jan 1 from 2016 DOHA: Qatar is all set to electronic sick change its fiscal or budget year to follow the Gregorian calen- dar (January to December) from 2016. The new financial year will begin on January 1 that year. leave system The current budget year will end on March 31, 2015 as planned. For the period from April 1 until Move to stop misuse of facility December 31, 2015, special budget- ary allocations will be made. DOHA: The Supreme Council the acting CEO of QCHP, Dr A draft suggesting the above of Health (SCH) has launched Jamal Rashid Al Khanji, told this amendments has been forwarded a unified electronic system for daily yesterday. to the State Cabinet after the sick leave certificates to address Recently, the Supreme Ministry of Finance approved it. frequent complaints about Education Council issued a direc- doctors issuing fake medical tive to all Independent schools to French MPs vote certificates. stop accepting sick leave certifi- The electronic system will cates issued by private doctors for Palestine eventually replace the manual and facilities to their staff. system of issuing sick leave cer- “Currently there is no uniform PARIS: French lawmakers tificates mostly used by private system for issuing sick leave cer- voted yesterday in favour of rec- clinics and hospitals, a senior tificates. An integrated electronic ognising Palestine as a state. SCH official said yesterday. system will help us gather accu- French MPs voted 339 to 151 in The SCH launched a one- rate data about sick leave certifi- The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani (third right); H favour of a motion urging the month pilot phase of the Central cates issued in the country for E Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman Al Thani (extreme right), Secretary General of Qatar Olympic Committee; government to recognise the Governmental Electronic Sick different types of diseases. This Engineer Saad Al Muhannadi (third left), President of Qatar Foundation; Hassan Al Thawadi (second left) state of Palestine. See also page 11 Leave System (E-Jaza) on data is crucial while investigat- Secretary General of Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee; and other officials during the Qatar Foundation Stadium THE PENINSULA & AFP Sunday. The new system will be ing complaints because we will be Design Launch at Hamad bin Khalifa University yesterday. See also pages 27 & 28 first implemented in the private able to identify doctors who issue sector. During the pilot phase, higher number certificates as well the electronic system will be used as patients who avail of sick leaves alongside the manual system. more frequently,” said Al Khanji. However, from December 30, it He said it was easier for doctors Marine Forecasting Office for Gulf to open next year will be mandatory for all private and patients to misuse the cur- doctors to issue sick leave certifi- rent manual system. For instance, BY SACHIN KUMAR to Oman. The entire Gulf region forecasts and warnings about bad put Qatar in the select category of cates through the E-Jaza system, a patient may approach different will use its services,” Ahmed weather from the office. Accurate countries that have such facilities. according to a circular issued by doctors seeking a sick leave cer- DOHA: Qatar is set to play a key Abdulla Mohammed, head of and updated data will help ships “There are just five such centres Qatar Council for Healthcare tificate and the doctor who even- regional role in marine forecast- the Meteorological Department reach their destination safely and in the world and this will be the Practitioners (QCHP) at SCH. tually issues the certificate may ing, with its Marine Forecasting in the Civi