ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 14 April 2013 4 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5669 Price: QR2 Three economic Arsenal sink zones Norwich with coming up late comeback Business | 17 Sport | 27 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 New SCH rule Miraculous escape on blacklisted practitioners Ban on working in health sector DOHA: Doctors, nurses and working in administrative or cler- other healthcare practition- ical jobs in some health facilities. ers blacklisted by the Supreme The new decision is intended Council of Health (SCH) for to stop this practice,” Dr Jamal errors or law violations have Rashid Al Khanji, director of been banned from taking up Healthcare Quality Management any job in the health sector in Department at SCH told The the country. Peninsula yesterday. Earlier, they were allowed to do The Department is responsible clerical and administrative jobs for licensing and monitoring the in the sector. Based on a deci- healthcare facilities and practi- sion (No 9 of 2013) issued by the tioners in the country. Minister of Health H E Abdullah He said it was not desirable to bin Khalid Al Qahtani recently, retain a blacklisted practitioner the SCH has instructed all pub- in the heath sector as his or A Lion Air Boeing 737 veered off the runaway at Bali’s international airport near Denpasar in Indonesia and landed in the sea, yesterday. Though lic and private healthcare facili- her presence can pose a threat no one died, dozens of the more than 100 passengers and crew members were injured as the plane’s fuselage split. Report on page 11 ties not to employ any blacklisted to public health. “There may be health professionals for any work. some incompetent practitioners They have been given three working in senior positions such months to get rid of all such prac- as administrators on the merit of titioners, if they have employed their experience in the industry. one. The SCH has also warned of Such people can influence the Qatar-Bahrain causeway redesign ready strict monitoring after expiry of health sector in the wrong way,” the deadline to ensure that they said Al Khanji. DOHA: The third redesign 2008 to include train tracks. quoted Qatar-Bahrain Causeway approve and implement the plans. follow directive. The rule applies He hinted that they may still be of the 40-km Qatar-Bahrain Another redesign was made in Foundation board member Raed Foundation board chairman Dr to healthcare professionals black- allowed to work in the country in causeway is almost ready — 2011 so the project could include a Al Salah as saying. Ahmed Al Ammadi will submit listed not only in Qatar but also in areas not related to healthcare. 12 years after the project was railway that would connect all the “The designs are in the semi- the report to the foundation in other GCC countries, and interna- He said SCH would blacklist proposed. Gulf countries. Believed to be the final stages where 70 percent of Doha to get approvals,” said Al tionally. The Ministerial decision a practitioner if he/she is found The revised project with an world’s longest man-made bridge, them are complete. They include Salah. was based on a recommenda- totally unfit or incompetent to estimated cost of $2.9bn is likely it was originally due to open to the plan to have a railway con- Travel time from Qatar to tion by the Permanent Licensing work in the sector or if the per- to have four vehicle lanes and two traffic this year. necting GCC states”, the daily Bahrain is expected to be reduced Committee (PLC) at SCH, a sen- son is involved in serious viola- railway tracks, Bahrain’s Gulf But rising costs associated with quoted Al Salah as saying. from four-and-a-half hours to ior official said yesterday. tions of the law. Of late, the SCH Daily News reported yesterday. global financial turbulence meant “However, the decision to start around 30 minutes as a result “We can say for sure that no had blacklisted a number of doc- Quoting top officials, the report it might only be ready shortly construction can only be made of the causeway, which will also blacklisted person is currently tors and nurses trying to get jobs said the new design will be sub- before the 2022 FIFA World Cup, by the two governments, which provide a connection for future working as a healthcare prac- in Qatar using fake certificates. mitted to the causeway founda- being hosted by Qatar, the report at first need to approve the final high-speed freight and pas- titioner in any public or private They will never be able to enter tion headquarters in Doha. Plans added. designs,” he added. senger rail lines between the facility in Qatar. However, there the country or take up jobs here, for the causeway were announced The new design for the project “From a design perspective, countries. are a few blacklisted practitioners said Al Khanji. THE PENINSULA in 2001 before being modified in is almost complete, the daily we are awaiting directives to THE PENINSULA Signals that Al Sadd win QSL turn green for Judge steps aside ambulances in Mubarak retrial DOHA: The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) will CAIRO: The judge in ousted attempted murder of hundreds soon introduce a new smart Egyptian president Hosni of peaceful protesters on January system at several intersec- Mubarak’s retrial stepped aside 25-31, 2011. tions to detect ambulances yesterday, in a chaotic opening The former president and Adly and other emergency vehi- hearing that lasted just seconds had both received life sentences in cles and give them the green and saw a proud and combat- a first trial in June, but all six of light. ive Mubarak smile and wave in the security chiefs were acquit- Motorists find it difficult the dock. ted, sparking protests across the to give way to ambulances in Head judge Mostafa Hassan country. Months of rumours that heavy traffic at intersections, Abdallah told the court he would Mubarak was too weak to attend especially when the lights are recuse himself and send the case his retrial were put to rest yes- red. Many are also scared of to the Court of Appeal, which will terday when the former leader running the red light. then refer the trial to a new cir- seemed healthy as he sat up in a Once the new system is in cuit, sending the case of the ex- stretcher in the defendants’ cage, place, the traffic lights will strongman back to square one. smiling and waving to supporters. turn green giving way to an As the judges filed out of the “We love you, big man!” a hand- appropaching emergency vehi- courtroom, uproar erupted with ful of his supporters yelled at him. cle, as well as other vehicles people shouting and waving His sons Alaa and Gamal, who waiting in those lanes. their arms. Civil society lawyers are also facing a new trial for cor- Ashghal has invited tenders Al Sadd players celebrate with the Shield after winning the Qatar Stars League at the Al Sadd Stadium in attending the trial chanted: “The ruption, appeared to be in good to design, install, operate and Doha, yesterday. Al Sadd beat Al Kharaitiyat 3-1. Report, more pictures on page 28. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) people want the execution of the spirits as they smiled and chatted maintain the new system, Al president.” with their father. Sharq reported yesterday. In October, the same judge had Earlier yesterday, televi- Under the new system, the acquitted defendants in the infa- sion footage showed Mubarak movement of emergency vehi- Abbas accepts PM Italian journalists China, US agree mous “Battle of the Camels” trial, wheeled out of an ambulance on cles at traffic lights will be who were accused of sending men a stretcher and taken into the monitored at a central control Fayyad resignation freed in Syria on North Korea on camels and horses to break up Police Academy in a Cairo suburb room, giving them way when a protest during the 2011 uprising for the hearing. needed. The testing phase RAMALLAH, WEST ROME: Four Italian journal- BEIJING: The United States that toppled Mubarak. A handful of supporters out- of the project is expected to BANK: Palestinian President ists held hostage in Syria for said yesterday that China “This judge and this circuit side the courthouse held up last for 90 days. Ashghal last Mahmoud Abbas accepted the more than a week have been had agreed to help rid North acquitted all the defendants in the posters of their former leader, year launched the first phase resignation of Prime Minister freed, Prime Minister Mario Korea of its nuclear capability battle of the camels and there is chanting: “Where are the days of its Traffic Signals Control Salam Fayyad yesterday, the Monti announced yesterday, by peaceful means, but Beijing a lot of doubt over their position. of Mubarak?” but they were out- Room project by installing 29 official Palestinian news agency and they were flown home from made no specific commitment This prevents him from conduct- numbered by security personnel. CCTV cameras at as many said. Fayyad had offered his res- Turkey. in public to pressure its long- ing this trial,” said Amir Salem, a Mubarak was flown to the intersections. ignation in a letter to Abbas fol- Italian media reported that time ally to change its ways. US lawyer for the families of victims. academy that was once named The project has been imple- lowing weeks of sparring over the four, who worked for state Secretary of State John Kerry Mubarak, his former interior after him by helicopter from the mented in collaboration with Fayyad’s handling of the gov- television network RAI, arrived met China’s top leaders in a bid minister Habib Al Adly and six Cairo military hospital where the Traffic Department.