Dozens hospitalized in Qatar after overeating during Ramadan

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Doha, July 13, 2013

Dozens of people suffering from abdominal pain were admitted on Wednesday to hospitals in Qatar after overeating on the first night of Ramadan, the Arabian Business website reported Thursday.

“Most of the cases at the emergency room during Ramadan are gastritis. We see 10 to 15 cases of overeating every day,” a medical staff member at al-Ahli Hospital told the Arabian Business website.

The Doha hospital was in a state of emergency last year when 100 patients were admitted in the first night of Ramadan; most of them suffering from abdominal pain, dehydration or kidney problems, according to the website.

In 2011, the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC)’s emergency department recorded 7,700 of Ramadan-linked cases of illness, the report said.

Qatar has among the greatest prevalence of obesity and diabetes in the world, The New York Times cited health experts as saying.

The small oil-rich Gulf state ranked sixth globally for prevalence of obesity and had the highest rate of obesity among boys in the Middle East and North African region.

By 2015, it is predicted that 73 percent of women and 69 percent of men will be obese in Qatar.

Source: Al Arabiya

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DOHA, July 08, 2013 (AFP)

Gas-rich Qatar, a key backer of the Muslim Brotherhood to which Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi belongs, condemned the killing of 42 loyalists of the ousted president on Monday, and called on all Egyptians to abandon violence.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which has led demonstrations against last Wednesday’s overthrow of Morsi, said its supporters were “massacred” when police and troops fired on them during dawn prayers outside an elite army headquarters in Cairo.

“Qatar strongly condemns such unfortunate acts that take away innocent lives,” a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement published by the official QNA news agency.

The emirate urged “self-restraint” and “national unity” as it called for “dialogue to preserve security, safety, and stability” in Egypt.

The spokesman, who was not named, also urged Egyptian authorities to “protect peaceful protesters and their right to express their opinions and positions”.

Qatar had cautiously congratulated Adly Mansour when the Egyptian army appointed him as the interim president replacing Morsi.

Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, who abdicated as the ruler of Qatar last month in favour of his son Sheikh Tamim, was staunch supporter of Arab Islamist movements and provided key political and financial support to Morsi’s government after the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak.

On Monday, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesman called for “abandoning violence in all its states and finding a political exit in Egypt that would guarantee political and civil rights of all and protect the achievements of the January 25, (2011) revolution”.

Influential Sunni cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born Qatari and seen as a spiritual guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, slammed the “massacres committed against peaceful protesters” and urged the army to “protect all demonstrators”.

He renewed an earlier call to “respect the will of the Egyptian people” and “restore” Morsi as president.

On Saturday, Qaradawi issued a religious decree, or fatwa, urging Egyptians to support Morsi.

Qaradawi, 86, is a regular commentator on Doha-based Al-Jazeera satellite television and has millions of supporters.