Where can people get care in Bahawalpur?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Bahawalpur's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 21 hospitals and 10 clinics here so far.

Where volunteers on OpenStreetMap have mapped hospitals and clinics. Their map shows where they have been, not everything that exists.

HospitalClinic or doctor

Hospitals named on the map include:

  • Civil Hospital
  • Sir Sadiq Abbasi (Civil) Hospital
  • Bahawal Victoria Hospital
  • Bahawalpur Hospital
  • Baksh Hospital
  • IUB Hospital

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, licence ODbL 1.0.

How far is care from here?

57% of people live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Bahawalpur. Half of people are within 73 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk43%
  • One to two hours27%
  • More than two hours30%

Sources: walking times, Weiss and others, Nature Medicine 2020 (Malaria Atlas Project), a model at walking pace from facilities mapped in 2019; where people live, WorldPop 2020.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Bahawalpur?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 1 of 5, worse on 4.

From the government's household survey of 2019-20, the newest that goes down to each district. It is not this week's news: it shows the care people in Bahawalpur could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    77% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 53% here, 60% across Pakistan.

  • Is a doctor, nurse or midwife at the birth?

    61% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    30% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    69% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 45% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    16% of homes have none. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey, District Level, 2019-20, tables 4.3 B, 4.7 B, 4.11, 4.12, 7.2. The birth figure adds together doctors, nurses, midwives and lady health visitors, the report's own definition of skilled help at a birth (page 197 of the PDF).

Sources. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.