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02 Monday, June 10, 2013 Good morning Doha FIRE 999 DIAL DOHA AMBULANCE POLICE Electricity 991 Water 991 Hamad Hospital 44394444 Childs Emergency Centre (Al Saad) 44393333 Rumila Hospital 44396666 Women’s Hospital 44396666 Airport Services- Enquiry 44622999 Airport Services-Operator 44656666 Qatar Airways 44496666/44496000 Qatar Airways (Airport) 44496688 Gulf Air 44455444 Gulf Air (Airport) 44656318 Immigration & Passport Department 44890333 Traffic Department 44890666 Water Emergency 44325959 Electricity Emergency 44677601 Weather Forecasting (Admn) 44656590 Drain Centre 44687894 Municipality (Doha) 44336336 Ministry of Education 44941111 Qatar Television (QTV) 44894444 Qatar Broadcasting Service (QBS) 44894444 Qatar University 44852222 Postal Department 44464000 SriLankan Airlines 44322628/44369910 Oman Air 44320509/44321373 Oman Air (Airport) 44626835 Contact US: Qatar Tribune ■ EDITORIAL ■ Phone: 44422077, Fax: 44416790 ■ ADMINISTRATION & MARKETING ■ Phone: 44666810, Fax: 44654975, P. O. Box: 23493, Doha. EDITORIAL: qatar.editor@gmail.com, qatar.pressreleases@gmail.com, COMMERCIAL PRESS RELEASE: qtpressreleases@qatar-tribune.com, ADMINISTRATION: admin@qatar-tribune.com, ADVERTISEMENT: advertising@qatar-tribune.com CIRCULATION: circulation@qatar-tribune.com, CLASSIFIED: classifieds@qatar-tribune.com Deputy PM calls for US support to resolve Palestinian, Syrian issues RAMY SALAMA DOHA The 10th edition of the US- Islamic World Forum opened on Sunday with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Cabinet Affairs HE Ahmed bin Abdullah al Mahmoud calling for further cooperation between the US and Islamic countries to find lasting solution to regional conflict, particularly Palestinian and Syria issues. Speaking at the opening of the forum, the deputy prime minister said, “The Forum continues to fulfil its objectives of fostering and furthering a productive dialogue between the US and Islamic countries, a goal which also corresponds with the Qatar National Vision 2030.” He stated that the Palestinian question remains a central axis of relations between the East and the West which, once resolved to the satisfaction of all parties, will lead to stronger cooperation between the two. He praised the efforts of the US Secretary of State John Kerry in this regard. Commenting on situation in Syria, Mahmoud said. “Due to the current regime’s oppression of the Syrian people, the international community will be faced with serious repercussions on world safety and stability if this issue is not resolved quickly. Failure to bring the situation in Syria Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for the Cabinet Affairs HE Ahmed bin Abdullah al Mahmoud with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (third right) and other guests at the opening session of the US-Islamic World Forum, in Doha, on Sunday. (JALAL PATHIYOOR) under control will risk compromising relations between the US and the Islamic World.” Other guests at the opening of the three-day forum included President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary- General Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the US Under-Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Tara D Sonenshine and minister of Foreign Affairs, African Integration, La Francophonie of the Republic of Benin. Organised by the Permanent Committee for Organising Conferences in cooperation with the Saban Center of the Brookings Institution in Washington, Qatar hosts the US-Islamic World Forum annually, featuring distinguished panel of the world’s scholars, experts and great minds in political, decision-making, academic, religious, business and media domains. The main objective of the forum is to support the annual dialogue to provide opportunities for cooperation between the Islamic world and the United States in particular, highlight the bright face of Islam and Muslims and redress their image in the West as well as establish a positive relationship between governments and peoples in the Islamic world. Nine forums have been held so far, including one in Washington in 2011. This year’s edition of the forum will include three plenary sessions together with a range of specialised working groups. It will close with reports promoting cooperation between the Islamic World and the United States and the need to work for positive relationships between both parties. Incorrect translation lands couple in court TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA AN expatriate couple, who was dragged to the Criminal Court on the charges of adultery has recently been acquitted of the charge, says an Al Watan report. The Criminal Court, pronounced the couple as not guilty observing that the charge was framed against them on the basis of poor and misleading translation. The incident took place when a Romanian woman, who had converted to Islam a couple of years ago and married a prominent Doha-based Canadian Muslim scholar, went to the hospital following labour pain. Since there were some complications in her womb, the woman had to undergo a surgery. Soon after the surgery the woman was reportedly sent to the police for interrogation. The police accused the woman of adultery and refused to acknowledge even the marriage certificate shown by her. The police was reportedly misguided by the translation provided by the translator, who with his limited knowledge of the Romanian language, misunderstood the version of the woman and quoted her wrongly. An attorney Abdullah al Mutawa defended the accused arguing that there are no evidences to prove the couple guilty of adultery. The accused were exonerated of the charge in February this year because of lack of evidences presented by Public Persecution.
Nation Monday, June 10, 2013 03 New SCH funding system to unify healthcare providers Hassad Food’s new livestock market to cost QR300mn LANI ROSE R DIZON DOHA MOODY TALAT DOHA THE new funding system at the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) will unify healthcare providers including government and the private in Qatar through a common method of classification and coding of diseases as well as incentive programme, a SCH official has said. Husein Reka, project manager for Social Health Insurance at SCH on Sunday said, “With the new system in place, hospitals will be able to compare their services with one another easily because of the common classifications and upgrade it accordingly.” Reka added, “We will incentivise good health outcomes among patients and reward high quality performance both among government and private hospitals, for example, in zero readmissions and infections among others. Activity-based funding will also serve as an information tool for policy makers to understand the nature and complexity of healthcare delivery in the country.” Meanwhile, SCH Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Affairs Dr Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali announced on Sunday that the SCH will soon implement a new activitybased funding (case mix) system for all hospitals in Qatar in line with the upcoming launch of the National Health Insurance Scheme. Under the new scheme, government hospitals will no longer be funded based on their annual budgets, but based on the services they provide to their patients. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, Dr Faleh said that the new healthcare funding system will also measure the performance of all hospitals including private facilities here, and will reward initiatives that increase efficiency in hospitals. He added, “As part of the National Health Strategy, the SCH has been working to introduce activity-based funding through the National Health Insurance Scheme. This is a necessary step to encourage both efficiency and efficacy to ensure that members and providers have access to a transparent, high quality healthcare”. He also said that the classification which will be used in the new scheme will involve grouping patients into what are called Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs). Patient Classification System International (PCSI) President Poul Erik Hansen also said that the activity-based funding scheme which is widely used in the West, leads to (From left) Supreme Council of Health Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Affairs Dr Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali, Project Manager for Social Health Insurance at Supreme Council of Health Husein Reka and Patient Classification System International President Poul Erik Hansen at an agreement signing ceremony, in Doha, on Sunday. (HANSON K JOSEPH) Qatar to host 30th annual PCSI meet in 2014 LANI ROSE R DIZON DOHA THE Supreme Council of Health (SCH) and the Patient Classification System International (PCSI) on Sunday signed an agreement to jointly host the 30th annual session of the PCSI conference in Doha in 2014. Around 300 specialist delegates including from academia as well as representatives of the health ministries, hospitals and non-governmental organisations from around the world will gather at the three-day event, which will be held in the Middle East for the first time, to discuss the development of the case-mix concept in different parts of the world. The event is a major international gathering of healthcare specialists focusing on the case-mix concept or services-based funding. The agreement was signed by Dr Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Affairs at the SCH and PCSI President Poul Erik Hansen. Husein Reka, project manager for the National Health Insurance Scheme at SCH said, “During the 2012 PCSI conference in Avignon, France, the SCH presented the preliminary results of the cost study in Qatar as part of the planned move to activity-based funding. It highlighted the position of Qatar as the most advanced member of the GCC and the Middle East region in casemix development.” Reka added, “During the 2013 event in Helsinki, Finland, we will be expanding on the previous paper and presenting the methodology for establishing cost weights for the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) system in Qatar”. improved quality of healthcare and decreased length of hospital stays among patients. “Because healthcare providers are paid a certain amount for every procedure conducted to patients, they would like to have the treatments done correctly to avoid prolonged treatments. These systems are used in many different funding models around the world. And in all the countries that have introduced case-mix systems as a tool for management of health care it has provided more health for the money”, Hansen said. HASSAD Food, the agricultural & livestock investment arm of Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), is building a threebranch livestock market at an estimated cost of QR300 million, the Chairman of HFC Nasser al Hajri said on Sunday. Revealing this at a function held at Hassad Food’s headquarters to celebrate the company’s fifth year in business, al Hajri said that the company was also awaiting three shipments totalling 13,000 hybrid Awasi- Merino live sheep, the first of which is due to arrive in Doha before the holy month of Ramadan. He said that the company received its first shipment of sheep from Hassad-Australia totalling 900 carcasses (frozen meat) recently. Hajri said that the company was currently managing a diverse production and investment portfolio in Asia, Africa and Australia and also evaluating investment opportunities in Europe and the Americas. “We own about 350,000 hectares of fertile land in Australia, suitable for cultivating grains”, al Hajri said, adding that Hassad now has a global capacity of producing 150,000 tonnes of grain and 260,000 tonnes of rice. According to him, Hassad has recently acquired a major stake in India-based Bush Foods Overseas, one of the biggest producers of Basmati rice in the world, which will enable HFC to launch its own local premium Basmati rice brand ‘Danat’, as well as relaunch its ‘Nathry’ brand for mass production. Hassad Food Chairman Nasser al Hajri (right) with CEO Fahad Abdulla al Subaiey at a press conference, in Doha, on Sunday. (MANEESH BAKSHI) ACHIEVEMENTS Cultivating 350,000 hectares of fertile land in Australia Global capacity to produce 260,000 tonnes of rice To launch premium Basmati brand ‘Danat’ Building a cold storage with a capacity of 270,000 tonnes Cultivating 1,000 hectares of green fodder in Qatar The HFC Chief, however, added that HFC’s interest in global investmentsdid not cause the company to overlook the local market. “Apart from cultivating 1,000 hectares of green fodder on Qatari soil, Hassad is building a silo complex at the New Doha Port, which will have the capacity to store 270,000 tonnes of grain, as well as a central storage facility for grains with a capacity of 125,000 tonnes”, he said. In the research and development arena, which plays an important role in HFC’s production strategy, the company has a hydroponics pilot project with a Spanish company, designed to produce fruits and vegetables in Shahaniya using nutrient solutions instead of soil. Hajri remarked, “Although we are concerned about food security, we have to build a sustainable investment all over the world. Our market is the globe, not only Qatar. We will not subsidise anything to Qatar’s market, but we are obliged to fulfil Qatar’s needs by selling to any local trader whenever the need arises at the prevailing market rate.”
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