PFIZER-BIOTECH COVID VACCINES FOR CHILDREN ages five to 11 will be available in Qatar starting January, according to a senior health official. Dr Mohammad Janahi, Sidra Medicine's chief of paediatric infectious disease and Outpatient Clinic medical director, shared this news on Qatar Television. During his appearance, he urged parents to vaccinate their children when it is their turn and shared that children in the above age group contribute to 63% of Covid transmissions. sidra.org
initiative to promote reading among children. Starting in Lagoona Mall, it is set to circulate different areas in Qatar, including parks and tourist areas, according to Jassim Al Buainain, MOC's Library Department director. Reading Space is scheduled to continue until 22 February 2022. moc.gov.qa/en
THE NATIONAL MENTAL HEALTH HELPLINE logged over 40,000 calls 18 months after its launch in April 2020, according to a report by The Peninsula Newspaper. MONEY.CO.UK has named Doha The helpline was launched the best coastal city to move to in at the beginning of the the world and the 12th Covid-19 pandemic to best city in general support people with mental in a November 2021 health issues, stress, or article. The article anxiety. Dr Majid Al Abdulla, listed several factors chairman of psychiatry at that were considered Hamad Medical Corporation, for this ranking, including said it is available to anyone average annual income, struggling. He also added life expectancy, internet that if further help is needed, speed, temperature, and water referrals to psychiatrists temperature for coastal cities. or psychotherapists can money.co.uk be made. The helpline is available by NEWS BITES THE MINISTRY calling 16000 OF between 7 CULTURE am and 3 (MOC) pm, Saturday partnered to Thursday. with Qatar covid19.moph. Reads to launch gov.qa/EN/ Reading Space, an Mental-Health Winter 2021 | Issue 20
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