Pilgrims Who Are Sick When They Return To Their Homeland Will Receive Special Services

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MEKKAH - Members of the Indonesian Hajj pilgrims who are sick will receive special services when returning from Saudi Arabia to their homeland. According to the Head of the Arrival and Return Services Section of the Hajj Organizing Committee (PPIH) in the Mecca Working Area, Amir Hamzah in Mecca, Thursday 14 July, members Sick pilgrims will be escorted to the airport by ambulance and sent home earlier than scheduled if needed. The Indonesian Hajj Health Office (KKHI) will propose members of the Hajj pilgrims who need an ambulance service to get to the airport or need to be discharged earlier than scheduled (tanazul). "KKHI has proposed evacuating (using an ambulance for) as many as six people, tanazul two, but one was canceled due to death," said Amir, quoted by Antara.

Officers will help arrange travel documents and passports for sick pilgrims who need an ambulance service to get to Jeddah airport. Amir explained that officers will find empty seats on early flights for sick pilgrims. 3 to 4 there are still (empty seats)," he said. "But we also have to know the status of the congregation whether he can sit, use a wheelchair or not, or (must) lie down," he added. Amir said that the availability of seats which can be used to lie down on different planes for each airline that provides Hajj flight services. He gave an example, Garuda Indonesia provides one seat that can be used to lie down for sick pilgrims in business class while Saudi Arabia Airlines provides nine seats. Amir also explained that request for tanazul or moving to a flying group (kloter) of pilgrims who were sent home early it can also be submitted by a member of the hajj pilgrims who need to leave early due to an official or educational assignment, or wish to be on the same flight with the mahram. "If a mahram is merged, for example, when the wife is separated from her husband or when in Indonesia, she is delayed, she should leave for batch two. So here she is Tanazul, we will return her to the original group. Or maybe there is an educational or official need," he said. can be submitted to the head of the flying group, who will submit an application to the sector which will then submit the application to the work area. Amir said that so far 179 members of the pilgrims who have applied for tanazul outside the sick hajj congregation members are still far higher. slightly compared to tanazul applicants during the 2018 and 2019 pilgrimages, which reached more than 700 people. According to him, members of the pilgrims who submit requests for tanazul must attach a statement signed in front of the witness that the person concerned will not sue if there are deficiencies in carrying out worship because came home earlier than scheduled. The first flying group of Indonesian pilgrims departing for the Holy Land in the first batch is scheduled to return to the country on July 15, 2022.