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Riyadh: Bird flu fears have prompted Saudi Arabia to increase the levels of health security measures surrounding the annual Haj pilgrimage. ?We have informed all foreign governments about the health conditions to be fulfilled by their pilgrims,? Saudia Arabia daily newspaper Arab News quoted Ministry spokesman Dr. Khaled Marghalani as saying. ?We will also closely monitor the catering companies which supply food to the pilgrims and ask them to comply with health requirements. We?ll mobilise all our resources to carry out health instructions and preventive measures,? he added. Marghalani said that the Haj Ministry would assign field teams to its emergency and operations departments. ?We are following up the progress of the disease on the international level,? the Saudi Press Agency quoted him as saying.
Hamad Al Khowailed, the director of health education and supervisor of Healthy Cities Programme in the Ministry of Health, told Arab News that arrangements have been made at all entry points to the Kingdom for pilgrims to get vaccinations if necessary.
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