Shaalan: Follow-up committees supervise tourism companies' commitment to implementing programs, with daily reports on the pilgrims' condition
By Akram Medhat
Mohamed Shaalan, First Undersecretary of the Ministry of Tourism and head of the tourism Hajj mission, said the mission in Saudi Arabia is following the situation of Egyptian tourism company pilgrims around the clock through reports from committees deployed at arrival points and places of residence, noting that the last tourism Hajj group will arrive in Saudi Arabia next Wednesday, 8 Dhu al-Hijjah.
Shaalan affirmed that follow-up committees supervise and make daily rounds of tourism companies' pilgrims to ensure the companies' commitment to implementing the programs agreed with the pilgrims, in addition to mission members being present throughout the day at the mission's headquarters at the Al Shohada Hotel in Mecca to receive complaints and solve the problems of Egyptian pilgrims who come to the headquarters.
Shaalan said the latest daily reports on the mission showed that the total number of pilgrims who had arrived in Saudi Arabia as of yesterday, Friday, reached 32,834, with 6 natural deaths recorded, for which all procedures were facilitated and completed and the necessary permits issued.
In the same context, the report stated that the number of sick cases reached 5, and the medical mission was notified to follow them up in the hospitals where they are being treated. Four missing cases were recorded, and the executive mission of the Egyptian Ministry of Interior was notified, as was the official mission of the Arab Republic of Egypt, in order to take the necessary security measures in coordination with the Saudi authorities.
