The Emergence of Hajj Stampedes: Lessons for Draw Near in the Islamic Values in Hajj Trauma Centers Accreditation

Context: The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th or 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar, with a population of more than 2 million pilgrims in Mecca. Muslims have a series of verdicts in an appealing scenario such as Abraham the prophet. The Hajj pilgrimage is one of the most important verdicts in not only Islam but also all of the Abrahamian religions. Hajj is the 2nd largest annual community in the world after the Arbaeen pilgrimage in Karbala. Many of the health risk factors during the Hajj occur and alerts us regarding forecast and control. The Islamic countries confront to this catastrophic event and need to proper standards, protocols for health service. Evidence Acquisition: 17 numbers of available papers pertaining to the Hajj pilgrimage from 2000 to 2016 were aggregated, coded and used in the current study. There were many libraries and online sources used during this study such as the ISI web of knowledge, Scopus, Google Scholar, Lancet, PubMed, MEDLINE, Wiley, Highwire and EMBASE. The search strategy was the Hajj pilgrimage and trauma centers or Islamic ethics, Islamic rights, Islamic verdicts and accreditation. The paper is managed by Thomson Reutter EndNote software. Two review authors independently assessed all of the papers. Results: On average 1,379,500 pilgrims from 188 different countries as well as 800,000 from Saudi Arabia visited Mecca every year. The health risk factors classified into categories included communicable and noncommunicable diseases. In total 2,431 people died and 427 were missing from 42 countries according to latest reports of the Hajj 2015 stampede. Conclusions: Recent studies pertaining to Hajj had emphasized to standard reforms on it. In addition some of them had pointed to the Islamic values approach to accreditation for Hajj trauma centers based on the justified standard systems.