ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 26 January 2014 25 Rabial I 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5956 Price: QR2 Today’s edition IPTC: Qatargas includes a special officials present supplement on India’s Republic slew of papers Day Business | 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Tahrir heaves, again People wary of Special courts going to football stadiums, for medical says survey DOHA: A large number of women in Qatar feel that foot- errors planned ball stadiums in the coun- try are not suitable for female fans, says an online survey by the Ministry of Development Patients’ rights to be first priority Planning and Statistics. Some blamed conservative DOHA: Qatar is planning to set the process should not affect the family norms and traditions for up special courts to hear com- morale of doctors and other staff. their reluctance to attend football plaints about medical errors, a The official said the project is matches. senior official of the Supreme in the initial stages and the shape Men are equally or more reluc- Council of Health (SCH) said of the proposed body has yet to tant to go to a stadium to watch yesterday. be finalised. a match but for different reasons, The SCH is working with the “We are more for a tribunal with about 65 per cent of Qatari Supreme Judicial Council and the than an independent court. This respondents admitting that they Qatar International Court and body should have legal and medi- didn’t attend any football match Dispute Resolution Center to chalk cal experts with powers to hear during the last season. out details of the project, accord- complaints and issue judgments. The survey on “the reasons ing to Dr Jamal Rashid Al Khanji, It can also decide on whether a behind people’s reluctance to acting CEO of the Qatar Council case should be referred to other attend football matches,” was for Healthcare Practitioners, the courts,” said Al Khanji. conducted in collaboration with body that gives licences to health The defendants should have Supporters of Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi gathering to celebrate the third anniversary of the Qatar Football Association and care practitioners. the right to appeal. In a related revolution that ousted president Hosni Mubarak at Tahrir square in Cairo, yesterday. At least 29 people were the technical committee for sports He said the special court/tribu- initiative, the SCH recently dis- killed nationwide when police and supporters of the military-installed government clashed with backers of statistics. More than 1,000 people nal has been proposed considering closed plans to set up a “patient Mohammed Mursi. (citizens and expatriates) aged that medical errors are different advocacy body” comprising repre- 24 to 35 years participated in the from civil and criminal offences. sentatives from the community to survey. About 67 percent of the “We have been looking for a advise patients on their rights and respondents said they didn’t have proper mechanism to address issues related to medical errors. enough time to go to a stadium, such complaints, protecting the Quoting a report by the general Syrian foes face each other in Geneva while 51 percent said they were rights of both the patients and the secretariat of the State Cabinet, a not interested. Of the women, 45 health practitioners. An ordinary local Arabic daily said yesterday GENEVA: Syria’s civil war who described the meetings as “a be delivered tomorrow. percent said that the stadiums court — civil or criminal — is not that the government is working foes held their first face-to-face good beginning”. While political “We haven’t achieved much, are not suitable for female fans the right place to try such cases, to set up special courts to hear meeting yesterday, launch- differences which Brahimi says but we are continuing,” he told a while others blamed conservative because in most instances a person cases related to medical errors as ing talks aimed at ending must form the core of their talks news conference after the talks families (45 percent) and customs committing a medical error cannot well as a supreme committee for nearly three years of conflict appear insurmountable for now, concluded for the day. Anxious (61 per cent) for their reluctance be treated like a criminal. There medical issues. which has killed 130,000 peo- the two sides focused yesterday to avoid any possible confron- to attend the matches. may be criminal acts involved but The committee will give its ple and destabilised the wider on a possible humanitarian deal tations, organisers ensured the About 60 percent of the total this should be decided by an expert expert opinion upon request from Middle East. aimed at building confidence in two parties entered and left the respondents said they were not panel. That is how the new pro- the Public Prosecution, the court Government and opposition the negotiating process. negotiation room for the morning happy with the schedule of the posal came up,” said Al Khanji. He or the health entity concerned on delegates faced each other across Brahimi said he hoped that and afternoon sessions through matches, 55 percent said stadiums said, while addressing such issues, whether there is a medical error a negotiating table at the United authorities in Syria would separate doors. Brahimi said they were not near and 50 percent put the first priority should be to pro- involved and the professional Nations headquarters for a total approve access today for an aid faced each other during the meet- the blame on annoying spectators. tect the rights of patients but at risks related to medical practice, of three hours in the presence convoy to reach the rebel-held ing but addressed their remarks THE PENINSULA the same time, the decision and said the daily. THE PENINSULA of mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, centre of Homs — allowing it to through him. REUTERS Continued on page 7 SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Qatar charity team visits Yemen projects Students discuss drafting SANA’A: Qatar’s Ambassador to Yemen Mohamed bin Hamad Al Fehaid Al Hajri along with a Qatar Charity (QC) delegation, which is currently visiting Yemen led by Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Jassim Al Thani, paid field visit to the projects funded by QC in a number of Yemeni governorates. They visited the Saudi German Hospital in Sana’a to see the progress law on domestic workers of the Open Heart charity programme which is run by QC. Ambassador Al Hajri lauded the role of QC and its charity projects especially in Yemen. Qatar University law students host counterparts from Kuwait Qatar Charity has also funded a number of projects in Yemen including the malnutrition project, which has served more than 138,000 people so far, as well as the sponsorship of 11,000 people, including more than 9,200 orphans, besides the construction of orphanages. QNA Students and officials during legal clinic roundtable. DOHA: Law students of Qatar University statistics and information with the excep- perspective on the fatwas and how Islam (QU) and their counterparts from Kuwait tion of Qatar and Kuwait. By contrast, he determines the treatment of domestic work- University at a legal clinic recently dis- referred to a recent study that found 600,000 ers. The NGO session discussed the type of cussed drafting of a model law to protect cases of human trafficking in the Arab world. services provided to domestic workers, number domestic workers. The legal clinics at each university is run and nationality of domestic workers who were The event was organised by the College by the students with supervision from law rendered assistance, types of cases, examples of Law (LAWC) in conjunction with The faculty and in consultation with organizations of cases, and difficulties NGOs face in their Protection Project at Johns Hopkins University involved in social and legal issues facing vul- work. Employers presented information on School of Advanced International Studies nerable members of the society. The students the number and nationality of domestic work- (JHU-SAIS). The purpose of the roundtable work together to provide legal advice, as part ers employed by their corporations; type of was to bring the two student groups together of their contribution to the community. services that domestic workers provide; labour to discuss their involvement in legal clinics in LAWC students Mohamed Saleh and regulations for employees vs those for domes- their respective organisations on issues such Aisha Al-Emadi said: “We participated in tic workers; and rights and responsibilities of as the protection of domestic workers and the discussions at Kuwait University in domestic workers vs those of corporations. that of trafficked persons. June 2013 to draft a law to protect domestic The final session included a review of It also was an opportunity for law faculty, workers, and on return to Qatar, we sup- the students’ Fall 2013 findings followed employers, NGOs and religious scholars to plemented the project with visits and inter- by drawing up of recommendations on the dialogue on drafting a model law on the views with several NGO agencies, human model law, incorporating insights of the rights of domestic workers, and to arrive rights and humanitarian organizations to three groups. at recommendations and an action plan to collect as much information that would help Representatives from QU and Kuwait modify the model law. in drafting the law. We will continue to University law professors, legal, religious and LAWC Dean Dr Hassan Okour, explained participate in similar approaches to achieve social affairs experts from the Qatar Center for that the meeting was a sequel to a series of the best results for our research”.