Dr. Al-Rabiah also said that during this year's Hajj season, the Ministry of Health equipped 25 hospitals in Makkah, the holy places and Madinah and 158 health centers with 31,000 health and administrative practitioners. The Minister of Health also said that the health teams at the Ministry of Health provided vaccine and preventive treatment against polio to more than 700,000 pilgrims. He also reviewed several achievements accomplished by the Ministry during this year's Hajj season, saying that medical and therapeutic services were provided to more than 465,738 pilgrims; and 566 cardiac catheterizations, 28 open heart surgeries and 1520 renal dialysis were performed. --SPA 15:36 LOCAL TIME 12:36 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w480817