ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 21 January 2014 20 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5951 Price: QR2 Energy industry Ton-up Ali faces huge helps Pakistan challenges: PM to level series Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Resolution of Emir attends camel race Emergency care at health centres rent disputes BY FAZEENA SALEEM people preferred the Emergency Department at HMC to the DOHA: Primary Health health centres. “The emergency Centres in the country will cases presented to the HMC need start providing emergency medical treatment for sub-spe- made faster care by the end of this year, in cialities, not available at PHCC an important move that will health centres as per its scope of help reduce the rush at the services,” explained Abdulmalik. Emir endorses Cabinet decision Emergency Department of the The five-year primary health Hamad Medical Corporation. care strategy launched last year DOHA: A Cabinet decision Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al A senior official of the Primary has recommended establishment issued yesterday paves the way Thani, yesterday. It is to be put Healthcare Corporation (PHCC) of urgent care treatment rooms for quicker disposal of disputes into force after being published in told this daily yesterday that new in health centres and a helpline between tenants and land- the official gazette, Qatar News initiative is part of an ambitious to support people with emergency lords over rent and occupancy- Agency reported. plan to improve and expand the care over telephone. related issues. According to the new deci- services of health centres. The official said the number of The decision bars the Rent sion, the head of a Rent Dispute As part of the PHCC strategy people seeking treatment at pri- Dispute Resolution Committees Resolution Committee must fix for continuous improvement, a mary health centres is increas- from postponing more than once the date of hearing of a dispute new initiative has been approved ing every day and there is more the hearing of a dispute due to and notify the plaintiff and the for equipping primary health demand for new services. non-availability of a document or defendant at least seven days in centres with facilities to provide “The primary health care cen- expert’s report. advance. emergency services to the com- tres in the future will play a key Each municipality has a Rent The notification is to be sent munity by the end of this year, role in ensuring that the most Dispute Resolution Committee by registered post or by email or PHCC’s Managing Director Dr common health care needs of the that hears disputes over rent and a sticker is to be pasted promi- Mariam Abdulmalik said in an population are met locally in the related issues between a tenant nently outside the property in email interview. community….” and property owner. The rent question. The remarks came in THE PENINSULA contracts signed between the two The Committee can take help The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the annual camel reply to a question why more Continued on page 5 parties have to be registered with from engineers or other officials race festival which features contests for H H the Emir Silver Sword. the municipality concerned. who are employees of the munici- The committees sometimes pality in whose jurisdiction it (the keep putting off hearings of Committee) falls and seek some disputes due to lack of some documents or expert opinion that Iran excluded from necessary documents from the are needed to settle the dispute. authorities concerned or opinion The Committee has the author- Iran halts uranium enrichment Syria talks: UN of experts they have sought for ity to slap a fine of QR500 on an help in settling a dispute. official who ignores its request for TEHRAN: Iran yesterday Iran “has ceased enriching ura- The IAEA said Iran “is not UNITED NATIONS: The United The committees were set up in help. halted production of 20 percent nium above five percent” fissile conducting any further advances Nations yesterday cancelled an 2008 following a Cabinet Decision If a plaintiff or defendant or enriched uranium, marking the purities at the Natanz and Fordo to its activities” at Natanz, Fordo invitation to Iran to attend a (Number 37 of that year) when a their representatives fail to turn entry into force of an interim enrichment facilities, the IAEA or the heavy-water reactor under Syria peace conference this week severe housing shortage and rising up for the first or even later hear- deal with world powers on its said in a report passed to member construction in Arak, which could over its refusal to back calls for a population were leading to near- ings despite being notified, the disputed nuclear programme. states. provide Iran with weapons-grade transitional government in Syria, explosion in the number of disputes Committee can either set aside Western powers kept to their It said Iran was also converting plutonium. a spokesman said. UN leader Ban between landlords and tenants. the dispute that has been brought part of the deal reached in its stockpile of medium-enriched “It’s all fine, all their require- Ki-moon is “deeply disappointed” The Cabinet amended its to it for settlement or can pro- November, with the European uranium, a particular concern ments have been fulfilled,” a dip- at Iran’s statements rejecting a 2008 Decision vide a new deci- nounce its verdict in absentia, the Union and the United States to the international community lomat said. communique on ending the Syria sion (Number 4 of 2014) that Cabinet Decision specifies. announcing they were easing crip- since it could easily be purified to AFP war, said Martin Nesirky. AFP was endorsed by the Emir, H H THE PENINSULA pling sanctions slapped on Iran. weapons-grade. See also page 7 See also page 6 TUESDAY 21 JANUARY 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Type 2 diabetics could reach 500m by 2030 Better ways of prevention and treatment urged DOHA: By 2030, there could be around 500 organisations attended the lecture. million people with type 2 diabetes across “Obesity and diabetes are major public health the world, mostly in places not well-equipped problems nationally and internationally, and to deal with the chronic medical condition, have been increasing in frequency for the past according to an expert. 50-100 years,” said Professor O’Rahilly. Increasing prevalence of obesity is driven “We need better ways of preventing and treat- by the reduction of physical activity in gen- ing obesity and diabetes; obviously one way is eral life and working life, and this is combined through public health measures such as improv- with cheap, readily available and high-calorie ing diet and physical activity, but the other way food, said Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, will be through better drugs. Chairperson of Clinical Biochemistry and “The work of my group involves studying Medicine at the University of Cambridge in patients with particular types of disorder that Doha. tell us about how body weight is controlled and He was speaking during a public lecture how insulin works in the body. organised by Hamad Medical Corporation “By understanding these patients, we can get (HMC) as part of the Academic Health System a better idea of what the normal control points (AHS) Lecture Series. in the body are, and working with the pharma- The genetics of human obesity and insulin ceutical industry, we can help them make better resistance was the focus of the lecture. drugs so we can improve the treatment of people Professor Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, Chairperson of Clinical Biochemistry and Medicine at the University of Cambridge in Doha, About 140 physicians, clinical scientists and with diabetes and/or obesity, and perhaps help health professionals from a wide range of spe- prevent obesity and diabetes,” he added. discusses the latest research into genetic factors in human obesity and insulin resistance. cialities from across the eight AHS member THE PENINSULA Symposium eyes global network for Type 2 diabetes research DOHA: Qatar Biomedical Research stakeholders’ institutions and around Institute (QBRI), will host a sympo- the world. By assembling this all-star sium on ‘Systems Biology of Diabetes: team of systems biology and genomic Towards Precision Medicine’ to iden- medicine experts for two days in Doha, tify opportunities for creating a glo- we hope to lay the foundation for a global bal network for research of Type 2 network focused on innovative research diabetes. for diabetes.” The symposium will bring together Unlike traditional medicine, which leading scientists from around the world offers a one-size-fits-all treatment to discuss new developments in the field approach, genomic medicine looks at of systems biology and genomic medicine diseases’ characteristics among geneti- for the understanding and treatment of cally similar populations. diabetes on January 26 and 27 at Qatar The ultimate goal of such research National Convention Centre. is to discover innovative therapies that “Type 2 diabetes is a serious problem are targeted at small, genetically related in Qatar, and QBRI is focused on better groups, giving rise to the term “precision understanding this disease and finding medicine”. innovative treatments for it,” said Dr “The quality of this symposium’s Abdelali Haoudi, Executive Director, programme is superior to almost all of QBRI. its kind in the field of diabetes,” said “The best approach for such research Dr Philippe Froguel, Senior Scientific is not to work in isolation, but to collabo- Director of QBRI and one of the organis- rate with other researchers from local ers of the event.