In 2024, between Dhu al-Qi'dah and Dhu al-Hijjah, Makkah Health Cluster offered medical services to some 6,897 pilgrims attending to emergency departments.
During the same period, overall 2,034 pilgrims attended to healthcare facilities; six open-heart surgeries and 68 cardiac catheterization procedures were conducted.
Health awareness teams reached over 220,000 pilgrims through various technological means and provided transportation and intensive care for 805 pilgrims, with only two reported cases of heat exhaustion.
Makkah, the 9th of June 2024. Between the beginning of the month of Dhu al-Qi'dah and the first day of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, the Makkah Health Cluster provided medical assistance to more than 6,897 pilgrims who visited the emergency departments of the hospitals that are affiliated with it. The Ministry of Health plans to offer pilgrims one of the complete services meant for their treatment.
Two thousand three hundred pilgrims visited healthcare facilities over this season. Six open-heart surgeries and sixty-eight cardiac catheterization treatments—from therapeutic to diagnostic—were carried out throughout this period. Using a mix of technology, digital screens installed in the neighborhoods around the Grand Mosque, and field visits in the streets and squares of the holy capital, Health awareness teams guided 220,000 pilgrims about health advisories. The cluster also reports having admitted 176 of the 805 pilgrims they admitted to hospital wards to ICU. The pilgrims also underwent medical assessments with twenty-three endoscopies. Heat exhaustion was reported to happen in only two documented cases.
