Makkah governor kicks off preparations for next pilgrimage

Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, governor of Makkah and chairman of the Central Hajj Committee, has consented to hold the Hajj workshop in late Muharram in anticipation of the following journey season in 1440 AH.

This came during a meeting of the committee in Makkah governorate office on Tuesday, which discussed the pros and cons of the pilgrimage season this year and preparations for Hajj next year.

The meeting reviewed statistics on the number of pilgrims leaving the Kingdom through all ports, which has reached 207,000 out of more than 1,760,486 (until Tuesday morning), or about 11.8 percent of all pilgrims.

The committee’s meeting also highlighted the positive aspects observed during the pilgrimage season this year, including the financial and human resources dedicated to the service of pilgrims, as well as the high level of coordination among all actors and improving the level of performance.

The geniuses likewise incorporated a diminishing in the quantity of infiltrators in the sacred locales, which thought about better the administrations gave and the smooth development of vehicles and people on foot and groups. It additionally pondered well the nonappearance of Hajj mischances, plagues and irresistible sicknesses and the arrangement of full administrations, for example, water, power and nourishment in Makkah and the heavenly locales and absence of protests in such manner. 

The momentum Hajj season was additionally described by the smooth transportation of explorers and giving security to them, and also the availability of travelers' lodging locales in the sacred destinations, and the achievement of activities amid the Hajj season in anticipation of a crisis. 

The masters likewise incorporated the improvement and foundation of uncommon disconnection spaces for patients in clinics of the heavenly destinations, and arrangement of wellbeing administrations to in excess of 330,000 travelers in Makkah and the sacred locales. The quantity of Civil Defense volunteers likewise expanded from 813 to 1,485. 

The gathering techniques at King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah were decreased and the limit of the entry stage at the airplane terminal was set to 45,000 pioneers for each day. 

Inhabitants of some Makkah neighborhoods confronted challenges achieving their homes and some wellbeing focuses in the sacred capital were not operational all day and all night. A need to expand the quantity of washrooms in the sacred destinations was likewise noted, and in addition the absence of adequate direction signs in Makkah and the blessed locales.