BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Every year 2-3 million Muslims gather for a few days around the Holy city of Makkah in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj. Managing enormous health issues associated with such a mass gathering requires a very vibrant health delivery plan. Related research is part of the strategy. This study was done to assess the pattern of patients and illnesses encountered at one health fac...

Abstract The pilgrimage to Mecca, which is called Hajj, the largest annual pedestrian crowd management problem in world. During pilgrims are accommodated camps. For safety reasons, exact times and directions given who moving between holy sites. Despite importance of complying with those schedules, violations can often be conjectured. Directing a small workforce camps monitor pilgrims’ complianc...

Hajj pilgrimage is a large mass gathering global event that may facilitate the spread and emergence of various infectious diseases as well antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in local scenario. Planning preparing for these public health issues challenging complex process Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) authorities. Despite multiple efforts prevention treatment through longtime funding education medical c...

Six cases of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W135 meningococcal infection have been reported in Turkey since 2003. Seven isolates recovered from four meningococcal meningitis patients and two asymptomatic carriers produced three distinct pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns. Multilocus sequence typing and antigen gene sequencing showed that five isolates were indistinguishable from...

This paper advances video analytics with a focus on crowd analysis for Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages. In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the advancement of visible surveillance to improve safety security pilgrims during their stay Makkah. It is mainly because entirely special event that involve hundreds thousands people being clustered small area. proposed convolutional neura...