BUSINESS | Page 1 Qatar to spend SPORT $80bn a | Page 1 year on Kiwis stun INDEX projects DOW JONES QE NYMEX QATAR 2 – 10, 28 COMMENT 26, 27 until India in REGION 11 BUSINESS 1 – 9, 15 – 20 17,189.14 10,199.91 36.10 ARAB WORLD 11, 12 CLASSIFIED 10 – 15 2017 World T20 -39.99 -117.74 -1.08 INTERNATIONAL 13 – 25 SPORTS 1 – 12 -0.23% -1.14% -2.90% Latest Figures published in QATAR since 1978 WEDNESDAY Vol. XXXVII No. 10029 March 16, 2016 Jumada II 7, 1437 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Emir meets Eritrean president Three Sidra In brief outpatient QATAR | Culture Celebrations for new headquarters of QF Qatar Museums Chairperson HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad clinics set to bin Khalifa al-Thani hosted a gala dinner to mark the opening of the new headquarters of Qatar Foundation (QF). HE Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz al-Kuwari, the Emiri Diwan adviser and Qatar’s open in May candidate for the Unesco’s director general position, attended the The Sidra Outpatient Clinic will be ic. Every aspect of the services and tech- ceremony along with Qatar a high-tech facility that enhances nology at the Outpatient Clinic will be Museums Vice Chairperson HE HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. The patient care, promotes eff iciency centred on patient safety and enhancing Sheikh Hassan bin Mohamed al- meeting reviewed bilateral relations and means of enhancing them, in addition to a number of regional and international and ensures safety the patient experience,” explained Lord Thani, HE Sheikh Faisal bin Qassim issues of common concern, particularly the latest developments in the region. The meeting was attended by a number of Darzi. al-Thani and a selection of the Qatari ministers and members of the delegation accompanying President Afwerki. arking a new era in the health- The Sidra Outpatient Clinic will adopt world’s leading artists, curators, art care scenario in Qatar, the the latest technologies to enhance pa- collectors and museum directors. Mstate-of-the-art Sidra Medi- tient experience. For example, paedi- Page 28 cal and Research Center (Sidra) will open atric patients will have their height, three departments of its Outpatient temperature and weight read by devices Clinic on May 1. which send the information directly to ARAB WORLD | Expansion The opening of the Dermatology, Pae- digital patient fi les - ensuring that pa- Israel seizes land in Syrian opposition demands diatric General Surgery Consultation tient information is streamlined and also and Obstetrics clinics are part of Sidra’s allowing nurses to spend more time on occupied West Bank phased opening of its Outpatient Clinic. patient care. Israel has appropriated large detail from govt at peace talks With a strong patient- and family- Patients will also benefi t from the tracts of land in the occupied centred focus, the Outpatient Clinic will rapid review and reporting of digital West Bank near the Dead Sea and be a high-tech facility that enhances pa- images from X-rays, ultrasound scans, the Palestinian city of Jericho, Reuters Kerry eyes Moscow trip whole point for us,” she said. tient care, promotes effi ciency and en- MRI, computerised tomography scans Israeli Army Radio said yesterday. Geneva “I believe he (de Mistura) has a sures safety. The Outpatient Clinic will all within minutes. A 3D printer will pro- Israel’s Peace Now movement, The first of Russia’s warplanes to leave strategy to bring the points that be led by a team of specialised doctors, vide models of a patient’s organs such as which tracks and opposes Israeli Syria received a hero’s welcome back are common to both sides, to focus nurses and allied health professionals the heart or the brain to help with treat- settlement in territory captured yrian opposition negotia- home yesterday, starting a surprise on those and build some common and services. ment planning. in a 1967 war, said the reported tors demanded yesterday that withdrawal the West hopes could boost ground. Now for that to happen we The clinics will be supported by radi- Acting chief medical offi cer Dr Ab- seizure of 579 acres (234 hectares) SSyria’s government detail its peace talks by pressuring Damascus. need the regime to make those propo- ology, pathology, pharmacy and labora- dulla al-Kaabi said: “As we are a referral- represented the largest land thoughts on a political transition and In a sign of potential progress, US Sec- sitions in a clear and stated way. We tory facilities. Patients requiring consul- based outpatient clinic, we have devel- confiscation in the West Bank in said there had been no progress on retary of State John Kerry announced are being very clear and will be even tation at the three clinics will be referred oped and streamlined our processes and recent years. The group said plans freeing detainees, who, it said, were he will travel to Moscow next week for clearer.” to Sidra by their existing primary or sec- systems to ensure the safe and eff ective for expanding nearby Jewish being executed at a rate of 50 a day. talks with Russian President Vladimir De Mistura said he would collect ondary healthcare doctor. As it is referral transition of care for the patients coming settlements and building tourism The opposition High Negotiations Putin, to “try to take advantage of this all input from all sides and “metabo- based, the Sidra Outpatient Clinic will from other healthcare institutions. Cre- and other commercial facilities in Committee (HNC) used their fi rst moment.” Page 12 lise” them and see where there was not off er emergency services. ating and maintaining a patient-safety the area were already on Israel’s meeting in a round of peace talks in “overlapping, contradictions or even “The opening of the Outpatient Clinic culture will be integral in our day-to- drawing board. Page 12 Geneva to give UN mediator Staff an common thinking”. He said he would is an important fi rst step in the phased day operations. Our ethos is centred in de Mistura a set of general principles a document entitled “Basic elements compare the documents from the two opening of Sidra Medical and Research putting our patients and their families at to guide the transition, a process to be for a political solution”, their part of a delegations. Center. This marks the beginning of our the heart of our strategy to provide high ASEAN | Politics overseen by Russia and the US in line plan to end the fi ve-year-old confl ict “We will analyse them, see whether journey to establish Sidra as a state-of- quality patient care.” Suu Kyi confi dant with a UN resolution. that has killed 250,000 people and we can make out of that a UN paper, the-art hospital and research centre. Our As part of the phased opening of “We intend to go into detail. We displaced more than half the pre-war for instance, or whether we can ac- goal is to provide patient-centred clini- services at the Sidra Outpatient Clinic, elected as president intend to go fast. We would like to population. tually add to it,” he said. “The secret cal care, conduct pioneering research plans are in place to off er more paedi- Myanmar’s parliament elected see this process make progress very Kodmani said the opposition was is to take the points on one side, the and educate and train future healthcare atric services over the course of 2016. a close friend and confidant of quickly,” HNC member, Basma Kod- eager to hear more about what was in other side, a third side, and come up professionals,” said Prof the Lord Darzi This will eventually include neonatology Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi as mani, told reporters after the meeting. the government’s document. with our own common sense and of Denham, vice-chairman, Sidra. consultation, developmental paediat- president yesterday, making Htin De Mistura met Syrian government “We would like to hear what the re- techniques in order to try to merge “Our team has worked incredibly hard rics, child and adolescent mental health, Kyaw the first head of state since negotiators on Monday, who gave him gime has to off er, because this is the (them).” and has been collaborating closely with ear nose and throat, pre-operative an- the 1960s who does not hail from Hamad Medical Corporation in prepar- aesthetic assessment and preparation. a military background. Suu Kyi led ing for the opening the Outpatient Clin- Page 6 her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election win in November, but a constitution drafted by the former junta bars her Qatar against plans to divide Syria from the top off ice. She has vowed to run the country anyway through a proxy president, and on Thursday QNA He said: “This interactive dialogue prisonment of innocent detainees, the NLD nominated Htin Kyaw for Geneva coincides with the launch of a new especially women and children, who the role. Page 15 round of political talks between the are languishing unjustly in prison and Syrian parties which we hope will lead subjected to the worst kinds of torture he State of Qatar has reiter- to a political solution to the Syrian cri- and oppression. ated the need to stand against sis,” adding that the Syrian regime has The non-respect of Syrian regime Tall plans aimed at dividing and never been serious about reaching such and its allies to the cessation of hos- fragmenting Syria, emphasising that a solution since the beginning of the tilities agreed upon recently as well maintaining the unity of the Syrian crisis that began with peaceful revolu- as numerous violations targeting the territory is one of the fi xed principles tion aimed at establishing a democratic moderate Syrian opposition denote that cannot be violated.