With millions of pilgrims moving to Mina today for the Day of Tarwiyah, the Haj Security Force has deployed thousands of officers and vehicles to ensure that traffic flows smoothly on roads leading to the area.
Minister of Interior Prince Muhammad bin Naif is overseeing operations.
Small cars will not be allowed to enter the holy sites; only large vehicles transporting pilgrims.
The government has also completed several projects to ensure pilgrims are safe. These include the Mina tents built on an area of 2.5 million square meters. These tents are made of fire-resistant material that limits the emission of toxic gases during fires. The tents are in various sizes including 8x8 meters, 6x8 meters and 12x8 meters.
A 100-km-long network of water pipelines for fire extinguishers are in place across Mina. Pilgrim camps have 30-meter-long water hoses fixed onto special boxes and fire extinguishers every 100 meters.
Each tent is equipped with automatic water sprayers and a 6-kg extinguisher.
Mina’s hospitals
The Ministry of Health announced here recently that its hospitals and health care centers in Mina are ready to deal with all types of ailments this Eid.
The ministry has focused this year on expanding its facilities to treat heart disease and provide surgery. It also has dialysis machines to save patients from seeking treatment at hospitals away from the holy sites.
Mina’s hospitals have 550 beds including 103 in the intensive care units and 108 in the emergency rooms. Mina’s Emergency Hospital has 190 beds and Mina’s Bridge Hospital 150 beds.
Alwadi Hospital in Mina has 160 beds and staff able to deal with all types of illnesses.
There are 28 health care centers close to the accommodation of pilgrims and in the main streets, 18 new primary care centers that were set up this year at train stations and 17 others at the Jamrat Bridge.
The ministry started operating these facilities Saturday.
