Mentally disordered, patients among Algerian Pilgrims

Three cases of madness were registered among the Algerian pilgrims, General Manager of the National Office for Hajj and Umrah, Sheikh Barbera, told Echorouk.

“Mentally disordered pilgrims are in an advanced state of disease. I am really dissatisfied for the medical treatment by committees with these conditions, by granting licenses to perform the rituals, although they are unable to do so due to illness by virtue of the disease, since they are not even aware of what they do”, he added.

“Some medical committees colluded with the sick pilgrims, giving them medical licenses of healthy pilgrims even though they suffer from advanced chronic diseases. Saudis doctors in hospitals where three cases were transferred confirmed that they are in an advanced state of illness, as their relatives used medicines for sleeping to avoid the appearance of any symptoms of the disease, and enable them to travel normally, before returning to their illness immediately after the end of the drugs’ effect”.

“The matter comes to pilgrims from Algiers, including an elderly woman in the seventies and an old man in the eighties, as well as an old man 65. I will not tolerate this time with the medical committees, as an investigation will open in the case through uncovering the identity of doctors’ supervisors, who have the task of checking conditions of the three pilgrims, soon after returning to Algeria, before lifting a detailed report to the ministry to take necessary action against them”.