The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has implored members of the National Medical Team for the 2024 Hajj to be ready to provide efficient services to the pilgrims voluntarily.
Chairman of NAHCON, Malam Jalal Arabi, gave the charge on Saturday in Abuja during the screening and inauguration of the team ahead of the inaugural flight scheduled for May 15.
Arabi said the system had changed, adding that the primary aim was to volunteer to work as diligent members of the medical team for the 2024 Hajj.
He said, “Fundamentally, you should be ready to do the job and you should be ready to volunteer to do it. That is the primary thing. Do it first whatever follows that will be it.
“We on our own volition applied because we want to do it. You have been invited here, I mean those that applied to participate in the medical team because you believe that you have something to offer.
“And I know without an iota of doubt that we all know what is expected of us before, during and after applying for what you want to do.
“And I am conscious of the fact that we know we are in a space occupied by over 200 million but we were only trying our luck, believing that if we are destined to participate Allah will make it possible for us to participate.
“I don’t mean to scare us anyway, but i owed you the duty to remind you of the weight of the responsibility that you are about to embark on.”
Also, the Head of the 2024 Hajj Medical Mission, Dr Abubakar Ismael, said, “Those that have been screened here, we are already screening their documents in accordance with what the Saudi authority advises us.
“So that at the end of the day once we collect all their documents as soon as we get to Makkah we just submit the documents in an external hard drive and they will help us to register all our medical personnel.”
He urged the members of the medical team to always put service to humanity first before money or any material gain in the world “and the sky will be our limit.
Ismael said, “These are going to be our watchwords in Makkah, Madinah and during our stay in Muna, Arafat and Muzzalifah.”
No fewer than 65,500 pilgrims from Nigeria are expected to join their counterparts from around the world to perform the 2024 Hajj in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
