Plans Afoot to Open Several Nurseries Outside Doha the Number of Nurseries in Qatar Reached 191 Which Are Enrolling a Total of 4,858 Children As of August 2019
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BUSINESS | 02 SPORT | 08 Qatar Chamber Neymar panel examines the saviour national strategic as PSG beat projects Strasbourg Sunday 15 September 2019 | 16 Muharram 1441 www.thepeninsula.qa Volume 24 | Number 8015 | 2 Riyals Upgrade your home internet to 150 Mbps and watch the best football leagues with Ooredoo ONE! Plans afoot to open several nurseries outside Doha The number of nurseries in Qatar reached 191 which are enrolling a total of 4,858 children as of August 2019. A large number of nurseries are being opened across the country including in cities and remote areas. SANAULLAH ATAULLAH Eye Preservation Initiative for Kinder- THE PENINSULA garten Children in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC) The Director of Family Affairs Department in 2019, initiative to explain the law No. at the Ministry of Administrative Devel- (1) for the year 2014 to regulate nurseries opment, Labour and Social Affairs, Najat for operators and directors of nurseries Daham Al Abdullah, has said that the in cooperation with the Department of Department is working to open more new Legal Affairs of the Ministry in 2018,” said QNB holds Open Career Day nurseries out of Doha. Al Abdullah. The Minister of Administrative Development, Labour & Social Affairs, H E Yousuf Mohamed Al Othman Fakhroo; QNB “The number of nurseries in Qatar She added that the Nursery Section Acting Group CEO, Abdulla Mubarak Al Khalifa, and other officials during QNB’s Open Career Day held yesterday. reached 191 which are enrolling a total of had launched the Healthy Nutrition Ini- 4,858 children as of August 2019,” said tiative for Nursery Children in collabo- `Business 01, 03 Najat Daham Al Abdullah in an interview ration with a nutrition centre in 2017 and with The Peninsula. She said that a large another initiative to celebrate the National number of nurseries are being opened Nursery Day in Public Parks in cooper- across the country including in cities and ation with the Public Parks Department remote areas. in 2017. HMC installs radio over-broadcast Speaking about the steps of the Family Al Abdullah said Article No. 22 of Affairs Department on encouraging Amiri Decree No 6 of 2016 on the admin- employers to open nurseries at work- istrative structure of the Ministry of warning system in 50 ambulances places, Al Abdullah said: “Yes, we Administrative Development, Labor and encourage establishment of nurseries at Social Affairs specifies the functions of FAZEENA SALEEM interrupt and switch over even if you pedestrians and motorcyclist on the workplaces but they should comply with Family Affairs Department. THE PENINSULA are listening to a CD,” said, Reimann roads and all vehicles will not be the required specifications and rules to She said that the functions include speaking to media persons on Thursday. playing the radio,” said Reimann. On suit specific work environment.” implementing national family strategies, The Hamad Medical Corporation’s “The new system gives drivers a regular day, the Ambulance Service She said that people can inform about plans and policies; increasing community (HMC) Ambulance Service has installed more time to move safely and give way attends nearly 700 emergency cases activities of unlicensed nurseries by awareness of family and social challenges a new Emergency Warning System to an approaching ambulance. Drivers and deploys about 130 ambulances. calling directly to Nursery Section at the and issues, their effects and ways to (EWS) in about 50 ambulances for a can hear our ambulance sirens and see “The new system is installed in 50 Department or through the call centre of prevent them. pilot phase of three months. The new their flashing lights up to 50 metres vehicles, which is about half of the total the Ministry or on its official website or “The Department is also responsible radio over-broadcast system allows away, but the new warning system will number of ambulances deployed each day. visiting in person to Family Affairs to implement projects and programmes the ambulance crew to alert drivers enable us to give warning to drivers We test the new system in all scenarios in Department at the Ministry. for women empowerment and chil- up to 300 metres ahead. much further ahead,” he added. urban and rural areas. At the end of the Al Abdullah said that the Department dren’s creativity culturally, educa- The trial of the new system began The new system will compliment trial period, we would analyse data, of Family Affairs, which comprises five tionally and recreational wise, in coor- on September 1, said Thomas Reimann, the usual lights and sirens on ambu- feedback from members of public, those sections, including Family Development dination with the competent govern- Executive Director of Healthcare Coor- lances. At the end of the trial period, from the ambulance service and find how Section; Nurseries Section; Productive mental and non-governmental bodies,” dination and Support Services at the HMC’s Ambulance Service will efficient is the new system,” said Reimann. Families Section; Elderly and Special said Al Abdullah. HMC’s Ambulance Service. conduct a final assessment to find the The new EWS is expected to help Needs Section and Juvenile Section, is She added that the Department also “The system will interrupt the radio efficiency of the system. manage the traffic flow, reduce risk of responsible for development of the entire prepares and implements programmes broadcast and switch over automati- “Not to confuse the road users, accidents and ambulance service to family and society. to prevent juvenile delinquency, rehabil- cally to unused channel enabling EWS will choose the road that has the reach the emergency scene faster. At She said that the Nursery Section itates delinquents and fights against social drivers to listen to an audio message, strongest signal and closer to the traffic present the Ambulance Service reaches launched several initiatives and made problems among juveniles, and supervise “Warning, ambulance approaching. signal. However the Ambulance an emergency scene within six minutes remarkable achievements. “The key ini- the social welfare homes allocated for Give way”, in Arabic and English. The Service will still retain the normal in the urban areas and 10 minutes in tiatives included The Healthy Teeth and their care and rehabilitation. `P4 system has a technology that can lights and sirens. Because there are rural areas. `P4 Qatar-Japan relations to widen: Ambassador New Hyperbaric Therapy SACHIN KUMAR the field of technology,” he said. THE PENINSULA “Qatar is making grand Unit can treat 18 patients design of smart cities that require The relations between Qatar and most high tech mobility system, simultaneously Japan are moving in the right We have seen Qatar- for example. I think certain Jap- direction. There is huge potential anese companies are very THE PENINSULA hyperbaric oxygen therapy – to further widen the growing Japan bilateral capable of providing such high DOHA monoplace chambers that relations between two countries, relations steadily technology for this project,” he permit a single occupant at one said Seiichi Otsuka, the outgoing developing and added. A new Hyperbaric Therapy Unit time and multi-place chambers ambassador of Japan to Qatar. growing. The He praised the foreign policy was officially opened as part of that allow multiple patients to “We have seen Qatar-Japan of Qatar and said that the Hamad Medical Corporation be treated at the same time. Pre- bilateral relations steadily devel- relations have grown country is playing very important (HMC)’s state-of-the-art viously we had a monoplace oping and growing. The relations not just in the field role in the region. Trauma and Emergency Center chamber. Our new chamber, have grown not just in the field of energy, but we “Foreign policies of Qatar at Hamad General Hospital, which is a multi-place chamber, of energy, but we have diver- and Japan are very identical. We recently. allows several patients to be sified our relations,” Otsuka told have diversified our believe that the regional issues Dr Kokash Osama, Senior treated at the same time. It also The Peninsula. relations.” should be solved peacefully. We Consultant, Anesthesia, and Head allows space for a healthcare “Both countries have agreed have same agenda. Qatar is of HMC’s Hyperbaric Oxygen professional to be inside the on widening the range of coop- playing a very important role in Therapy Program, said while chamber caring for patients,” eration, but we have to do more. the region,” he added. “Middle hyperbaric oxygen therapy has said Dr Osama. The relations are going forward of this year, according to the number three crude oil supplier East is very critical part of been available at HMC since Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in right direction,” said Otsuka, Quarterly Bulletin of Foreign to Japan. We are importing Japan’s diplomacy,” he said. 2013, the new Hyperbaric involves sitting or lying inside a talking on the sidelines of his Merchandise Trade Statistics for helium and oil products,” he He said that FIFA World Cup Therapy Unit has significantly sealed chamber and wearing an farewell reception hosted by the second quarter of 2019. The total added. in 2022 will be a big success and increased capacity to provide the air mask with two tubes Embassy of Japan on Wednesday. export to Japan from Qatar was There is immense potential Japan can contribute in suc- treatment. attached - one providing pure The relations between Qatar around QR11.63bn, as per the for cooperation between the cessful hosting of this mega He said the new 18-person oxygen, the other taking old air and Japan are very strong which Planning and Statistics Authority private sector of both event by sharing latest hyperbaric oxygen therapy away. The therapy is painless is evident by the growing trade data.