Over 300 students from the Colleges of Medicine at UQU have participated in serving God’s guests, distributed on the hospitals of Al-Masha’er and Makkah, in addition to several volunteering programs affiliated government bodies and charity organizations during the Hajj season of this year 1439AH.

 The Vice Dean of the College of Medicine, Dr. Hani Al-Mualim, said that the participation of students in such voluntary programs contributes to providing them with more practical and professional experience. It also raises their specialized proficiency to master a range of important medical skills in the medicine of Hajj and crowds with high and distinct professionalism. He pointed out the positive outcome of this kind of participation, including forming their future medical character. He added that the College has developed within its updated curriculum content that is concerned with Hajj and crowds medicine in cooperation with the University College in London (UCL).

For his part, the Vice Dean of the College of Medicine for Development, Dr. Assem Al-Shanbary, added that the students participating in the Hajj season are: Students from medical colleges in several courses, including the field course in which about 70 students participated. It includes health education, foot ambulance teams, and being present at health centers in Mash'ar Mina. About 67 students took part in that course. Additionally, there is the course of the hospitals and Masha’er of Makkah, with about 73 students, alongside with 63 other students in the course of Hajj an Umrah. About 3000 cases were taken care of throughout the days of Al-Mashaer, as well as at hospitals and health centers.

Dr. Al-Shanbary pointed out that this program was carried out in cooperation with a number of bodies, including the General Directorate of Civil Defense and the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah for the program of “Be of Aid”, as well as the Directorate of Health Affairs in Makkah and the Ministry of Health, alongside with Al-Rajhi Charity Campaign and the Institute of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques for Hajj and Umrah Research, and the Security Forces Hospital.