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Tuesday, 21 August 2018 07:21

Haj 2018: Safety and security of pilgrims a top priority


More than two million pilgrims have converged in Mina on Sunday on their way to Arafat and the Kingdom considers their safety, security and wellbeing a top priority and a red line that should not be crossed.

"We are mainly concerned with the comfort and security of all the pilgrims without any distinctions or disparities," said Saudi chief of army staff, Gen. Fayyad bin Hamid Al-Ruwaili.

He said that his instructions are that we should ensure the pilgrims with the best of services and provide them with complete comfort and security.

Ruwaili said the Kingdom has been deploying all its resources and capabilities for the service of the guests of God.

According to the security spokesman of the Interior Ministry, Major General Mansour Al-Turki more than two million pilgrims are performing Haj this year including about 240,000 domestic pilgrims.

He said the General Authority for Statistics will officially announce the exact number of the pilgrims on Tuesday, the day of Eid Al-Adha.

Spokesman of the Health Ministry Mishaal Al-Robaian, said the ministry has prepared 25 general hospitals and 155 health centres with a capacity of more than 5,000 beds for the pilgrims in Makkah and the holy sites.

He said the ministry has deployed about 30,000 health cadres consisting of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, technicians and administrators to serve the pilgrims and added that the ministry also has a mobile field hospital.

Spokesman of the Ministry of Haj and Umrah Hatim Qadi, said about 750,000 pilgrims in Madinah were transported to Makkah on 21,000 buses which passed through the Miqat mosque to put on their ihrams so as to do the tawaf al-Ifada on their arrival in the grand Mosque.

Meanwhile, Sheikh Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, chief of the Presidency of the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, said the mataf area in the Grand Mosque will be used only by people doing tawaf (circumambulation) not for prayer so as to provide enough space for the pilgrims to do their tawaf easily.

He asked the pilgrims to pray in other areas of the Grand Mosque.

About 107,000 pilgrims do their tawaf around the Kaaba every hour while there are more than 278,000 pilgrims who pray in the Grand Mosque every hour.

The authority said as much as 2,000 cubic tons of Zamzam water is poured into the Grand Mosque every day while 300 tons are poured in the Prophet's Mosque in Madinah.

According to the presidency, there are about 20 muezzins who raise the Adhan in the Grand Mosque and 10 imams to lead prayers.

Darul Ihsan Media Desk

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