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المملكة: It includes 3 axes: an awareness campaign to enhance drug safety during the Hajj season


Launched , in cooperation with , an international awareness campaign under the slogan "Your medication is a responsibility…and your safety is a priority"

This comes within the framework of a strategic partnership aimed at promoting the safe use of medicines during , and protecting the health and safety of pilgrims and Umrah pilgrims.

Enhancing the safety of pilgrims

The objectives of the initiative go beyond the health awareness aspect, to include enhancing the safety of pilgrims and Umrah pilgrims by disseminating instructions related to the safe use of medications, which contributes to supporting a safer and healthier Hajj trip.

The organization of the initiative also reflects the importance of the two sides in uniting efforts to serve the guests of God, and enhancing interest in public health during the Hajj season.

This initiative comes Coinciding with the beginning of the Hajj season, and as part of joint efforts to establish a unified health approach across the Islamic world, by raising the level of awareness of the safe use of medicines, and translating awareness messages into a wide-impact institutional initiative, which contributes to setting the standards of international partnership aimed at ensuring the safety of pilgrims and enhancing their health security.

Basic first aid for pilgrims

The campaign is implemented across multilingual digital platforms, and is based on three main axes, including: Awareness The safety of medicines and ways to preserve them while traveling and performing rituals, and introducing the contents of the basic first aid kit for pilgrims.

This is in addition to facilitating regulatory procedures related to controlled medicines through the restricted medicines system, ensuring the smoothness and clarity of procedures for visitors to the House of God.

This cooperation is an extension of the implementation of efforts "Riyadh Declaration"It aims to enhance integration and cooperation between the national authorities concerned with regulating medicines in the OIC countries, and to activate a sustainable framework for cooperation in the areas of health security and cross-border health initiatives.

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