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The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced strict health guidelines for pilgrims intending to perform Hajj 2026<\/em>. Individuals with major organ failure–including kidney failure requiring dialysis, heart failure with symptoms during minimal physical activity, and chronic lung disease requiring oxygen support–are not eligible to undertake the pilgrimage.<\/p>\n Other medical conditions that disqualify prospective pilgrims include advanced liver cirrhosis, severe…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced strict health guidelines for pilgrims intending to perform Hajj 2026. Individuals with major organ failure–including kidney failure requiring dialysis, heart failure with symptoms during minimal physical activity, and chronic lung disease requiring oxygen support–are not eligible to undertake the pilgrimage. Other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8915,4508,4509,12349,5731,29420,6857,257,12919,6960,254,28407,6810],"class_list":["post-217125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comply","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hajj","tag-health","tag-ksa","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-pilgrims","tag-requirements","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umrah","tag-urges"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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