Qaeda until the sixth day of the month, the Ministry of Health has provided its health and medical services benefiting 197265 patients, 29214 outpatients and 31865 emergency patients. For his part, the spokesman of the Civil Defense Lieutenant Colonel Abdullah Al-Orabi Al-Harthi announced that Civil Defense's phase one of the plan ended to success, citing no major incidents taking place. He confirmed the preparedness of Civil Defense 1500-member squads in Makkah, and the holy places (Al-Mashaer). He said the latest expansion of the Grand Mosque as per the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Project has contributed to alleviating pressure on the central area around the Haram and increasing it in other places, like Al-Azizia. Accordingly, population density in those areas amounted to 35%, necessitating the augmenting of deployment of field civil defense squads, rescue and ambulance teams there, he added. He said operation theaters in Makkah were equipped with technological systems, including tele-remote system that pinpoints the incident's location and type within four seconds. He added that the use of gas cylinders in Hajj areas was barred, citing a dramatic decrease in the number of violations of this regulation compared with last year. --More
