Deployed national healthcare services in Hajj mass gathering settings: emergency department experience of Makkah Diyanet Hospital during the 2025 Hajj period
Ömer Faruk Turan, Zeynep Kekeç, Muhammed Fatih Baran, Mehmet Rıdvan Yalçın · 2026
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Ömer Faruk Turan and three colleagues analyze emergency care at a Turkish national hospital deployed for the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage in Makkah. Their 2026 retrospective study covers a mission serving 84,942 Turkish pilgrims between April and July 2025. Operational data from such independent national missions are rarely published.
Nearly ten thousand pilgrims, 11.7 percent of those served, made 13,360 emergency visits. Respiratory illness dominated at about half of presentations. Referrals to higher care stayed low overall, yet heart and neurological problems, small shares of visits, supplied outsized shares of referrals. Age was the strongest referral predictor, with pilgrims seventy-five and older referred at roughly fourteen times the adjusted odds of younger groups. Repeat visitors also faced higher referral risk. Mortality ran at thirty-four per hundred thousand pilgrims. The authors recommend age-based planning and stronger advanced life support.
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| CREATOR | Ömer Faruk Turan, Zeynep Kekeç, Muhammed Fatih Baran, Mehmet Rıdvan Yalçın |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 49979 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |