Advisor to the Minister of Health, Dr. Tareq Madani, who is also Chairman of the Consultative Medical Board, declared today that no single case of corona or Ebola viruses, or any contagious disease was reported to the Ministry in the Hajj area, noting that the health situation of pilgrims is reassuring so far. In a statement, he attributed the abating of coronavirus, which witnessed a worrying spread in the Kingdom last March and April, to the preventive measures taken by the Ministry of Health to combat the infection in hospitals on one hand and illuminate people to evade the means of transmitting the virus on the other. Complying with its policy of transparency, the Ministry is going to announce any case once it was discovered among pilgrims, the spokesman vowed. Dr. Madani gave an account on the measures taken inside hospitals in the Kingdom to push the spreading phenomenon downwards. With emphasis on pilgrims coming from abraod, particularly Ebola-stricken countries: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, same measures were taken to avoid the spread of the disease, he added. He noted the advanced electronic services recently introduced by the Ministry of Health to combat contagious diseases, including smart-phone Android service to assist a sick pilgrim to quickly make his/her way to the location of the nearest health facility in Hajj area, movable labs which provide careful and precise diagnosis of the disease and send the result to doctors, and the Command and Control Center which accommodates a host of specialized medical team to control any case whenever and wherever it appears during Hajj.
