said it will deploy what it calls “Medical Caravans” at key worship points during the coming Hajj exercise which starts on Friday.Pilgrims participating in the annual ritual are expected to move to Mina, outside Mecca, on Friday. From Mina, pilgrims would spend four to five days performing key aspects of the Hajj exercise.
The commission’s chair of medical team, Ibrahim Kana, in a message to chief executive officers of states pilgrims boards, commissions and agencies, said medical personnel have been distributed to states and zones, who will be part of the contingent of pilgrims during the movement to Mina. He also said the same caravan would move to Arafat with sufficient drugs and medical consumables, including provisions for blood sugar testing for the diabetic patients.More drugs supplied