The Qatar Hajj Mission at the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has made superb arrangements for the comfort of pilgrims from Qatar.
Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs H E Ghanem bin Shaheen Al Ghanim, who is heading the Qatar Hajj Mission visited in person to check the accommodation and health facilities for pilgrims from Qatar in holy places of Makkah.
Mina and Arafat camps included all means of security and safety, and healthcare facilities including medical clinics, a pharmacy, rooms for examination and isolation, an emergency department for both sexes, and a highly equipped ambulance.
Arafat camps are well-equipped, furnished and air-conditioned living rooms, which were tested to withstand hot weather to ensure a high-quality operation.
The camps contain a multi-purpose seat for each pilgrim, made of the best materials, and that the Qatar Hajj Affairs Office provided top-notch heat-insulating tents (PVC) in the Arafat site and air conditioners with high capacity and several shaded outdoor spaces.
Highly skilled healthcare providers across various specialities also accompany the country’s pilgrims in all their movements from Arafat to Muzdalifah. The Qatari Hajj Mission in the holy lands signed a cooperation agreement yesterday with the German-Saudi Hospital in Makkah. This agreement aims to provide treatment for emergency or chronic medical conditions requiring hospital admission, ensuring the health and safety of the state’s pilgrims during their Hajj rituals and until their return home after completing the pilgrimage.
The cooperation contract with the German-Saudi Hospital complements additional contracts signed with private hospitals in the Mecca Towers overlooking the Haram and near the residences of Qatari pilgrims in some of these towers.
Qatari Hajj mission has provided medical clinics, a pharmacy, examination rooms, an isolation room, inpatient rooms, clinics, and an ambulance equipped to the highest standards in the areas of Mina and Arafat.
There are also medical teams consisting of skilled doctors, nurses, paramedics, and pharmacists from various specialties who will accompany the state’s pilgrims during their movements from Arafat to Muzdalifah.
The communication and support unit of the Mission also reviewed the unit’s operation around the clock to serve the pilgrims of Qatar from the first day of arrival, receive their inquiries and provide the immediate assistance accordingly, in addition to following up on the campaigns and pilgrims’ movements during their stay at the residential compounds in Makkah Al Mukaramah and the holy sites based on the routes determined by the Saudi authorities.
