The female medical students working as volunteers at Mina Emergency Hospital are obsessed with achieving a number of objectives, including seeking Allâh's reward and gaining experience from doctors and medical competencies involved in serving pilgrims.
Some female medical students, including Abrar Fathi, Ghoufran Sabbahi, Sarah Al-Juhani, Masha'el Al-Shehri, Sarah Hussein, Nahlah Ba-Qabs, A'hd Majdali, Shahd Majdali, Nuha Abu Al-Saud, Nada Abu Al-Saud, and Bayan Murshed said, “We thank Allâh Almighty and our parents who encourage and help us to participate with the Ministry of Health in serving pilgrims.”
The students stressed that the participation in these occasions make the female student acquire great experience and have the ability of facing a lot of difficulties that must be well settled in their profession, in addition to recognizing the correct and proper methods which are essentially important in the medical profession.
These students expressed their views that this participation would add a lot of experience to them and would allow them to apply the medical basics they have learned in order to better serve the community, praying for Allâh Almighty to accept this volunteering and to help them offer the best they can in pursuit of serving pilgrims.
A'hd Majdali and Shahd Majdali, two Saudi sisters who are studying medicine and are volunteering in the emergency department at Mina Emergency Hospital, said that their volunteering to work during the Hajj season and serve Allâh's guests and the visitors to the city of the Prophet Mohammed (Peace be upon him) is very exciting for them.
Shahd, a student at the sixth level of the Faculty of Medicine at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, clarified that this participation will give her a lot of benefits, including allowing her to learn how to deal with patients, seeking Allah's satisfaction, dealing with the medical and nursing staff, and allowing her to learn how to handle critical situations.
Despite the long working hours and the great efforts made to serve the diseased pilgrims, Shahd Majdali expressed her wishes to participate in the Hajj season every year, calling on doctors to pursue all that satisfies Allâh in this humanitarian work, and she also called upon the students to register to work during the Hajj season to get the numerous personal and professional benefits.
A'hd Majdali, the youngest volunteer, and student of the second level of the Faculty of Medicine at Umm Al-Qura University, said that her participation in the Hajj season as a volunteer gave her a great enthusiasm to contribute to this national humanitarian activity, pointing out that she has received full cooperation and assistance from emergency physicians and nursing staff to provide the service as required.
A'hd added, this humanitarian activity will give her a lot of benefits, including providing examples of the practical application of the curriculum, getting familiarized with the high pressure of work, learning the methods of developing service and dealing with patients who speak different languages and suffer from different diseases. Meanwhile, she expressed her aspiration through this rich experience to be the first female minister of health in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.