The Ministry of Health provides services to more than 400,000 pilgrims



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6:36 p.m. Monday, August 12, 2019

Youssef Afifi wrote:

The Saudi Ministry of Health, through the hospitals and health centers of Mecca, the Medina and the Holy Places, continued to provide high-quality specialist services to pilgrims during the pilgrimage season this year (1440 h).

According to the statement of the Saudi Embbady in Cairo today, the ministry explained that the number of pilgrims who have benefited from specialized services in hospitals and health centers since the first day of the month of Dhul-Qa & Until the end of the tenth day of the same month was (421852) pilgrims and needy and was driven (36) open heart surgery and cardiac catheterization (1998), dialysis (1998) and (103) ) laparoscopic operations and (616) other operations, while (3450) pilgrims and the need for hospitals were registered (11) births up to the morning of Eid, the number of beneficiaries of mobile clinic services was 18,065 pilgrims.

In a related context, the Ministry of Health has received through the hospital Mina Al-Jisr 2508 pilgrims since the beginning of Eid, explaining that the outpatient service had received 1 721 pilgrims and needy, while the emergency department had received 576 cases.

The Thermal Stress Department received 49 cases and 162 cases were admitted, of which 136 were recovered, while the hospital conducted 20 cases of hemodialysis.

According to the Ministry of Health, the hospital welcomes all pilgrims and other patients and provides them with the necessary medical services and interventions, distributing them medicines, as well as cases of pilgrims suffering from general stress, chronic diseases (such as pressure , diabetes, heart disease), asthma attacks, fatigue due to their inability to tolerate the heat of the sun and congestion, and people suffering from chronic diseases due to the stress of movement.

It should be mentioned that the hospital includes a number of medical teams in the departments of Emergency, Intensive Care, Surgery, Internal Medicine and Operations, and that their tasks consist of dealing with Emergency cardiac resuscitation cases within the department, in addition to the multiple injury department, consisting of a consultant in general surgery, a consultant Orthopedics, emergency medicine, anesthesia and vein surgery, whose tasks are to intervene quickly when needed.

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