Ten Nigerian pilgrims performing the Islamic Hajj rites in Saudi Arabia have been confirmed dead.
According to reports by Premium Times, the Coordinator of the National Hajj Commission in Mecca, Aliyu Tanko, said on Monday that 50,000 Nigerian pilgrims have so far arrived Mecca with virtually all them having performed the Umrah rites.
Mr. Tanko also revealed that the National Hajj Commission’s three clinics in Mecca are well equipped to take care of pilgrims and they provide effective medical services to Nigerian pilgrims in Mecca. He also urges Nigerian pilgrims to take advantage of the various state pilgrims boards.
He encouraged them to make sure they always seek medical advice before embarking on pilgrimage and warned them against exposing themselves to the harsh weather in the Holy Land.
It was also reported that two lounges were provided at the Jeddah airport to check African pilgrims for Ebola, with King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) having the two lounges to receive pilgrims coming from Nigeria and some other African countries as a preventive measure against the Ebola virus.
“So far 118,000 pilgrims have arrived by air from Nigeria. There was not a single suspected case of the deadly virus among anyone of them,” said Abdul Ghani Al-Malki, the supervisor of Haj affairs at the terminal.
‘’Emergency doctors and consultants in infectious diseases are participating in the execution of the plan in addition to qualified teams who are capable of checking the virus,’’ he added.
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