Author: Shujaa, Asaad; Alhamid, Sameer
Title: Health response to Hajj mass gathering from emergency perspective, narrative review Document date: 2016_3_9
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Snippet: A. Size of gathering It is the largest and oldest mass gathering known to mankind with an average of 3 million people in the same area, at the same time and doing the same thing. There is a high population density of 8e9 persons per square meter. Human stampedes at Hajj are frequent especially with high population density doing same things in the same time at same location in small crowded area and associated with high mortality rate. B. Diversit.....
Document: A. Size of gathering It is the largest and oldest mass gathering known to mankind with an average of 3 million people in the same area, at the same time and doing the same thing. There is a high population density of 8e9 persons per square meter. Human stampedes at Hajj are frequent especially with high population density doing same things in the same time at same location in small crowded area and associated with high mortality rate. B. Diversity of population Pilgrims come from different countries, with diversity in ethnic origin, different languages and socioeconomic status. 1 All attend the Hajj together with different medical background and many of co-morbidities especially with older people. Many of pilgrims arrive from low-income countries, many will have had little, if any, pre-Hajj health care, which lead to some infectious disease can easy to spread and cardiovascular diseases can happen.
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