By Akram Medhat
The Chamber of Tourism Companies has contracted with an Egyptian insurance company to provide the necessary health care for pilgrims, including treatment and medical evacuation in Saudi Arabia and the city of Aqaba in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, in the form of insurance policies to be issued to each pilgrim in his or her name.
This comes out of the chamber's keenness to ensure the Hajj trip is performed safely, with health care befitting the pilgrims of the Egyptian tourism sector, given that the medical insurance policy for pilgrims of the 1438 AH season does not cover treatment and medical evacuation services should anything happen to them, and also because of the many emergency medical cases among pilgrims while performing the rituals.
Medical support centers with emergency numbers for treatment and medical evacuation cases have also been activated in both Saudi Arabia and the city of Aqaba in Jordan, to communicate around the clock with tourism sector pilgrims.
Once it receives these policies, the chamber will promptly hand them over to the tourism companies to distribute to their pilgrims before they travel to perform the rituals, so as to provide all the necessary data and medical information a pilgrim needs in case of illness or injury.
