He said the department was able to stop transfers of a number of employees that were unjustly made, cancel decisions to terminate the working contracts of several foreign doctors, nullify salary cuts and warning letters to staff, and amend performance evaluation reports for some medical employees.

Al-Sihaimi said the department was established about two years ago to consider complaints by medical staff against any injustices done to them by their superiors or colleagues that might have resulted in disciplinary measures.

"The objective of the department is to protect the material and moral rights of the medical staff and correcting any wrong decisions against them," he said.

Al-Sihaimi said the department had established branch offices in a number of major hospitals in Madinah.

Meanwhile, the secretariat general of the Haj Committee announced that a total of 18,488 pilgrims arrived in Madinah through Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport and by road Sunday, while 22,888 left the same day.

It said so far, 904,267 pilgrims had arrived in Madinah to pay homage to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and pray at his mosque. It added that 731,927 of them had left for Makkah, leaving behind 172,340 pilgrims.

The committee said the largest number of pilgrims in Madinah were the Pakistanis, who reached 43,962, followed by 37,273 Bangladeshis and 17,541 Indians.