Medina’s Health Directorate set its program to carefully keep a vigilant eye on the health of the kingdom Ramadan’s visitors .

This Program includes 19 medical centers in Medina along with general hospitals, health centers as well as periodic control centers. These centers are offering preventative and awareness services as well as effective pieces of advice to Median visitors and Umrah performers.

The General Director of the Directorate of Health Affairs in Medina, Dr. Abdullah Al-Taifi,  declared that his administration will scan all over land travellers as well as air and sea travellers. He added that the main target of this preventative measure is to bring the transmission of communicable diseases to an end or at least limit it.

The plan has been implemented and mainly oriented to reach a high level of medical services for citizens, expatriates and pilgrims Umrah performers . These integrated services include therapeutic, ambulatory and preventative services.”

Dr. Abdullah Al-Taifi Announced that these health centers are settled on the seasonal Bab Jibreel, Prince Muhammad Bin Abdul Aziz Airport, Prince Abdul Mohsin Bin Abdul Aziz Airport, Yanbu Commercial Seaport and pilgrims’ housing complexes.

He added that medical teams are conducting strict control operations on all incoming Umrah performers to avoid any possible case of epidemic diseases. Umrah pilgrims are controlled with thermal cameras to make sure that they do not suffer from swine flu too.

Furthermore, the Program covers the inspection of all the restaurants that serve foods to Umrah pilgrims to make sure they are  their clean enough to offer that service  and that they are adherent to the required hygienic standards.