www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESSB | 23 SPORT | 30 QQatar Chamber Ghazali & Bentley and QBIC sign top guns in QREC agreement awards list TUESDAY 10 MAY 2016 • 3 SHA’BAAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6792 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Project Qatar 2016 opens Duterte secures PHCC involves huge win in Philippine polls patients in MANILA: Anti-establishment fire- brand Rodrigo Duterte secured a huge win in the Philippine pres- idential elections, according to a poll monitor. decision-making And after a record turnout of voters in yesterday’s elections, Duterte, the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao, scored a in our history. We aim to engage commanding victory, according patients in setting our plans. In the to data released by the PPCRV, a Primary Healthcare past we used to consult members of Catholic Church-run poll monitor Corporation sets the Central Municipal Council (CMC). accredited by the government to We find it more important to consult tally the votes. up first Patient patients directly,” she said. With 88 percent of the vote Consultative Council The idea behind the council is to counted, Duterte had an insur- at Leabeib Health actively involve patients registered mountable lead of 5.84 million votes with each primary health centre in over his nearest rival, administra- and Wellness Centre. various activities of the centre, espe- Minister of Economy and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed bin Jassim Al Thani inaugurating the 13th tion candidate Mar Roxas, according cially those intended to raise health edition of Project Qatar 2016 exhibition at Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre yesterday. to the data. Duterte had 38.6 percent awareness. Pic: Salim M / The Peninsula → See also pages 9, 10, 11 & 21 of the vote, with Roxas on 23.12 per- Patients will become members cent and Senator Grace Poe in third By Mohammed Iqbal of the council and will be invited with 21.76 percent. The Peninsula to meetings and other activities to be held at their health centres. “We → See also pages 2 & 7 have launched this as a pilot project and have started setting up the first 78 violations by outlets last month Saudi intercepts DOHA: The Primary Healthcare council at Leabeib Health Centre. We Corporation has launched Patient will study it and evaluate its func- missile from Yemen Consultative Council, a new initiative tioning before expanding it to other The Peninsula with Law No. 8 of 2008 on consumer services or products (three). to involve patients in the decision- health centres,” said Dr Abdulmalik. protection. The nation-wide drive Violations also involved launch- DUBAI: Saudi air defence forces making process, PHCC’s Managing She believes that there will be resulted in 78 fines. Missing price tags ing promotions without obtaining the yesterday intercepted a ballistic Director Dr Mariam Ali Abdulma- a “healthy competition” between topped the violations at 17, followed approval of competent departments, missile fired from Yemen, but a lik has said. private clinics and primary health DOHA: A failure to display price tags by raising prices without the approval selling expired and substandard Saudi-led military coalition will In an exclusive interview with centres, with the expansion of the on products and raising prices with- of competent departments (eight) and products, failure to use Arabic in maintain a shaky truce despite The Peninsula, Dr Abdulmalik said national health insurance scheme out approval from authorities topped false or misleading product descrip- ads and description of goods and this “serious escalation” by the the first such council has been set in the country. “Accessibility and the list of 78 violations of the con- tion and advertising (eight). services, non-compliance with the Houthi militia, the Saudi state up at the recently-opened Leabeib quality of service will remain major sumer protection law, detected by the Other violations included non- declared price list before and during news agency SPA said. Health and Wellness Centre, as a attractions for patients in the private Ministry of Economy and Commerce compliance with the price list of promotions, refraining from selling “The coalition announces that pilot project. or the public sector. There would be last month. fruits and vegetables (seven), issu- all or some discounted products, it will continue to maintain the “We are running a Patient Con- a healthy competition. Some patients The violations led to the closure ing incomplete bills (six), missing or missing bills and failure to refund cessation of hostilities,” the coa- sultative Council for the first time may have a preference for some pro- of some erring outlets and fines rang- incomplete product description (five), customers, return or exchange items. lition said. It gave no other details viders and there may be people who ing from QR5,000 and QR30,000, the charging customers higher prices The ministry also processed 769 about the missile or the target, get used to receive care through their ministry said yesterday. than advertised (five), launching complaints and shut down and fined other than saying it was destroyed Interview with Dr Mariam practitioners,” said Dr Abdulmalik. The ministry intensified inspec- promotions without obtaining prior a beauty centre in Al Mamoura for without causing any damage. Ali Abdulmalik on page 3 tion campaign during the month to approval of authorities (four) and one week for displaying and selling → Continued on page 3 ensure compliance of retail outlets not clearly displaying the price of expired cosmetics. → See also page 6 02 TUESDAY 10 MAY 2016 HOME Sewage treatment plant on track Turkish envoy visits The Peninsula Minister briefed on progress in QR3.63bn Doha North Sewage Treatment Plant during his visit. The Peninsula Dr. Khalid Al-Shafi, Editor-in-Chief, The Peninsula, received Turkish DOHA: Minister of Municipality Ambassador to Qatar, Ahmet Demirok, in his office yesterday. and Environment H E Mohamed bin Dr. Al-Shafi briefed him on the evolution of the newspaper and Abdullah Al Rumaihi yesterday visited progress since its first edition to the recent re-launch under his the Doha North Sewage Treatment management. The ambassador praised the newspaper’s role at Plant and reviewed work progress. local and region levels, describing it as ‘‘Real Qatari Newspaper’’. He was accompanied by Engineer He also expressed willingness to bolster cooperation with the Jalal Yousef Al Salhi, Director, Infra- daily, benefiting from the current excellent ties between Turkey structure Affairs, Ashghal, and other and Qatar. Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi with Engineer Jalal Yousef officials from Ashghal’s Infrastructure Affairs and Assets Affairs . Al Salhi, Director, Infrastructure Affairs, Ashghal, and other officials during the visit. The Minister was briefed on the QR3.63bn project and its progress, prominent treatment plants. It uses treatment plant for the reception and generated from the sewage treatment engineering and construction tech- advanced treatment techniques such treatment of sewage, which has been process to dispose them according niques used in its implementation, as ultrafiltration and ultra-violet designed to treat up to 245,000 cubic to international standards for safe QBRI to start clinical components and advantages of technologies to produce high qual- metres of sewage a day, serving a pro- disposal. Construction of the TDP is the new treatment plant and the ity treated water which can be used jected population of over 900,000 substantially completed and is going thermal drying plant, the plants’ in irrigation. by 2020. through final commissioning. advanced systems, and works being The Doha North STW is in Umm The second phase includes con- The TDP includes four thermal research on Parkinson’s implemented. Salal Ali, 25km to the north of Doha. struction of a Thermal Drying Plant dryers being tested utilising sludge The Doha North Sewage Treat- The first phase of the project (TDP) within the Doha North STW to generated at the Doha North STW and ment Works (STW) is one of the most includes construction of the main processes sludge — the solid materials the Doha West STW. By Fazeena Saleem permission to access spinal fluid The Peninsula samples obtained through Michael J Fox Foundation. The foundation, dedicated to funding and research relating to Highest turnout for Philippine polls in Qatar DOHA: A major clinical research Parkinson’s disease, has been col- project on Parkinson’s disease lecting biomedical samples for four starts at Hamad Bin Khalifa Uni- years, to give them to researchers so By Raynald C Rivera among others. versity’s (HBKU) Qatar Biomedical that they can discover biomarkers The Peninsula “As a whole the economy under Research Institute (QBRI) in Sep- to indicate the state of the disease. the president was very stable. We tember. “The foundation has its covert were able to become a destination The research on clinical sam- of patients with Parkinson’s disease for investment and trade, and tourism ples of patients will help discover and done follow-ups with them for DOHA: Overseas Absentee Voting picked up which is something I hope biomarkers (causes) of Parkin- five years. It collected blood sam- (OAV) for the Philippine national elec- can be continued since everything is son’s disease and early detection, ples, spinal fluid and images in tions witnessed the highest turnout in looking bright for the Philippines in which would help treat the patients clinical data and those samples,” its entire history in Qatar at 35.02 per- terms of economic performance,” he effectively, said Dr Omar El Agnaf, said Dr El Agnaf. cent or 15,695 total votes cast as OAV added. Professor of Life Science, College “We are the first research group concluded yesterday. He spoke of the possibility of the of Science and Engineering, HBKU. that will have access to the samples, “I’m very pleased about the turn- new president of the Philippines to Parkinson’s disease is a chronic and I will lead the research.