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‘Not enough medics’ to help pilgrims with heat, Hajj witnesses tell CNN as toll mounts
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/22/middleeast/medics-pilgrimage-hajj-eyewitnesses-intl/index.html
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Witnesses said worshipers losing consciousness and walking past bodies covered in white cloth became a norm during the mass religious event.
Zirrar Ali, 40, who returned to London on Friday from his pilgrimage with his 70-year-old father, told CNN that authorities did not provide enough water, shade or medical support to Hajj pilgrims during the week he was there.
“Every time there is a distribution of water from local residents or certain groups, it is immediately overrun by the pilgrims,” he added, saying that he didn’t see health workers or a single ambulance along the road.
Unlicensed pilgrims typically don’t travel in organized tour buses with air conditioning or easy access to water and food supplies.
The daughter of an elderly Indonesian man who died during Hajj told CNN her family was “happy” he was buried in the Islamic holy city of Mecca after he had waited for years to go on the pilgrimage.
Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Heru Jumartiyah said her 86-year-old father Ngatijo Wongso Sentono registered for Hajj pilgrimage in 2018 and travelled to Mecca with his 83-year-old wife and neighbors from the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta.
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