Major-General Hussein, the Assistant to the Minister of Interior for Administrative Matters, said that 14 Egyptian pilgrims who were admitted to the hospitals for treatment are in good and stable condition, according to an official statement.

Hussein stressed that the Egyptian medical delegation from the Medical Services Sector of the Interior Ministry accompanying the pilgrims is coordinating with the Saudi health authorities to provide all necessary medical support to these patients.

In this regard, he expressed gratitude to the Saudi authorities for their full support and keenness to provide Egyptian pilgrims with necessary care.

Hussein added that the Egyptian Hajj delegation would help these pilgrims perform Farewell Tawaf rites after their recovery before returning them home safely.

Two pilgrims receiving treatment at the hospitals, Mohamed Hassan Abdullah, 73, and Ahkam Abdel-Zaher, 63, thanked Saudi and Egyptian doctors accompanying the Hajj mission for providing them with excellent medical care.

Around 56,000 officially registered Egyptian pilgrims performed Hajj with nearly two million pilgrims this year amid extreme hot weather.

The overall death toll from the Hajj 2024 season exceeded 1,000, according to the latest AFP tally on Thursday.

More than half of the deceased were unregistered pilgrims, according to AFP.

Last week, after media reports surfaced suggesting that some Egyptian pilgrims died while performing Hajj and tens went missing, Egyptian authorities mobilized to respond to the situation.

On Tuesday, Egypt’s Tourism Hajj Mission reported that it located 142 lost Egyptian pilgrims who had gone missing while performing Hajj in Saudi Arabia and returned them to their residences.

On Thursday, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ordered the formation of a task force to follow up on repatriating deceased Egyptian pilgrims' deaths and provide necessary support to their families.

The president also directed the task force to immediately coordinate with Saudi authorities to facilitate the repatriation of the deceased pilgrims' bodies and to provide all necessary assistance in this matter.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also dispatched field consular teams to Mecca and the holy sites to search for the missing Egyptian pilgrims.

These consular teams conducted field visits to hospitals to gather data on Egyptian pilgrims admitted for treatment or passed away and then crosschecked this information against the reports for missing pilgrims filed by their families.