Health Minister Announces Success of Hajj Health Plans for the Year 1440 and Its Absence of Events Affecting Public Health

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His Excellency Dr. Tawfiq Bin Fawzan Al-Rabiah, Minister of Health, announced the success of Hajj's health plans for the 1440 year of hegemony, without events affecting public health.
He praised the unlimited support of the guardian of the two holy mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Al-Saud and his Crown Prince, whom God protects, the Ministry of Health, its employees and all sectors of the mosque. 39. State who work in the Hajj, calling on God to accept their pilgrims and bring them safely home, Ghanmin.
In a press release issued today at the Mina Emergency Hospital: In accordance with the instructions of the guardian of the two holy mosques and His Highness the Crown Prince, may God protect them, the ministry of Health was prepared early for the 1440H pilgrimage and issued health requirements and recommendations related to the pilgrimage and published through the Sacred Islands' ambbadadors.

He explained that more than one million six hundred and ninety thousand pilgrims had benefited from preventive and ambulatory services in the outlets of health services provided by the ministry this year, which also cooperated with a number of Government agencies under the Makkah Road Initiative, in the course of which preventive measures were implemented in Hajj country before traveling to the Kingdom. This initiative has made a qualitative leap in meeting health requirements, with coverage of meningitis and influenza vaccines for pilgrims benefiting from this initiative reaching 100% for the first time.
The Minister of Health stressed that the ministry had organized a pilgrimage this year in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO).
He explained that the number of participants in the service of pilgrims for this year, about 30,000 employees of the Ministry of Health, was also the establishment of 25 hospitals in Mecca and Medina and holy places of a capacity 5,000 beds, 142 basic health centers, and more than 140 mobile clinics. In the gathering places of the pilgrims.

He said that the number of pilgrims who received health services at our facilities had reached half a million pilgrims from the first day of the month of Dhul-Qaida until the twelfth day of the month of Dhul-Hijjah, while the number of people admitted to the hospital reached more than 4,200 pilgrims. Open heart, more than 750 heart catheters, 600 different surgeries, 12 births and dialysis services for all those who need it, stressing that all these services are provided free of charge.
Dr. Alrabiah noted that the Ministry has for the first time launched the robotic medical consulting technology that allows any hospital in Mina to contact specialist consultants in remote areas, as well as 120-language machine translation devices in hospitals and hospitals. primary care centers. In addition to the implementation of the electronic medical file system in 55 primary care centers and in all hospitals of the holy places, activation of the identification technology of unidentified fingerprint in cooperation with the Ministry of Health. # 39; Interior.