(MENAFN- The Peninsula) A medical team of 30 doctors, nursing staff, technicians and paramedics will accompany Qatar's Hajj mission this year and most of them are citizens, it was announced yesterday.
The first batch of pilgrims (nationals and expatriates) is likely to leave for Saudi Arabia next month.
At a press conference at its headquarters, Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) announced the team. It is an annual ritual conducted by QRC for 10 years now, through Hajj Medical Committee, which comprises medical experts from QRC, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Supreme Council of Health (SCH), and Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC), under the supervision of the Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs.
The press briefing was attended by Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, Secretary-General, QRC, and Dr Khaled Abdelhadi, Chairman, Hajj Medical Committee, QRC, and Head of medical unit that will accompany the Hajj Mission.
Al Mohannadi said: "Every year, Hajj Medical Committee forms a team stocked up with medicines, medical equipment and ambulance vehicles to take care of Qatar's pilgrims. The team vaccinates pilgrims against communicable diseases, monitors their health conditions to intervene in emergencies and educates them on the healthy ways to spend the pilgrimage season safely."
Dr Abdelhadi said, "A small hospital is established with all specialities in different places of pilgrimage and a private hospital has been contracted to receive cases that may require surgery. From the beginning of Ramadan, the pilgrims were vaccinated and strategies and plans for the mission developed." He advised pilgrims to tell doctors if they have a chronic disease and have their medications with them. QRC will send volunteers to help Saudi Red Crescent Authority organise the millions of pilgrims and deal with any emergencies, under the umbrella of the GCC Secretariat-General, as a way to unify GCC humanitarian and volunteering action. Over the past three years, the mission received 8,967 cases in Makkah, Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifah.
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