Is anything worse than usual in Batagram right now?

Yes. Flu-like illness is above usual: 1.8× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: non-cholera diarrhoea.

Above usual · 1.8×

716 flu-like illness cases a week, against a usual 401.

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Read from these four weekly reports by Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad:

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 38, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 5 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025
  • Week 39, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

⅛×usual8×

How this is worked out. The last four weeks against the same four weeks of the two years before, for this district alone. Illnesses with fewer than 5 cases a week here are left out: too few to compare.

What makes the most people ill here?

Flu-like illness and non-cholera diarrhoea: 93 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness50 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea43 in 100
  • Malaria5 in 100
  • Dog bite1 in 100
  • Measles0 in 100
  • 7 others1 in 100

30,220 reports from Batagram so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Too few weeks of reports, or too few cases, to show a season in Batagram yet.

How does Batagram compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Batagram is 8th of the 61 districts with enough flu-like illness to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 1.1×Abbottabad: 0.8×Badin: 1.9×Bajaur: 0.0×Barkhan: 0.7×Batagram: 1.8×Chagai: 1.1×Charsadda: 0.5×Chitral Lower: 0.3×Chitral Upper: 0.6×Dadu: 1.8×Upper Dir: 0.9×Ghotki: 2.7×Hangu: 0.0×Haripur: 0.9×Harnai: 0.4×Hyderabad: 0.9×Jacobabad: 0.7×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 0.2×Jhal Magsi: 0.1×Central Karachi: 1.3×East Karachi: 0.1×Karachi Keamari: 2.3×Korangi Karachi: 0.8×Malir Karachi: 1.0×West Karachi: 1.7×Karak: 0.1×Kashmore: 0.6×Kech: 1.3×Khairpur: 0.8×Kharan: 1.3×Khyber: 0.3×Killa Abdullah: 1.7×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.7×Lasbela: 2.0×Loralai: 1.4×Malakand: 6.4×Mansehra: 1.2×Mardan: 0.5×Mastung: 1.4×Mirpur Khas: 0.6×Nasirabad: 0.0×Naushahro Feroze: 1.4×Nowshera: 0.5×Nushki: 0.0×Peshawar: 0.3×Sanghar: 1.3×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.4×Sohbatpur: 0.7×South Waziristan (Lower): 0.7×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.1×Sukkur: 1.4×Swabi: 1.3×Swat: 0.3×Tando Allahyar: 1.9×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.0×Tank: 0.3×Tharparkar: 0.4×Thatta: 1.3×Upper Kurram: 0.5×Usta Muhammad: 1.4×Batagram

Across Pakistan as a whole, flu-like illness is at 1.1× its usual; here it is 1.8×.

Why each district against itself. A large district always has more cases than a small one. Each dot is a district against its own usual, so size drops out.

Where can people get care in Batagram?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Batagram's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 3 hospitals and 1 clinic here so far.

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

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

How far is care from here?

Most people (81%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Batagram. Half of people are within 163 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk19%
  • One to two hours19%
  • More than two hours62%

The map these times come from is missing some of the hospitals and clinics here, so the real walk is probably shorter than shown.

What people say

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 50% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care (58% in rural areas), against 42% across Pakistan.

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; what people say, National Institute of Population Studies and ICF, Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18, table 9.17.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Batagram?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 0 of 4, 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 Batagram could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    64% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 42% here, 60% across Pakistan.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    34% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    72% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 91% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    20% of homes have none. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

Not answered for Batagram: Is a doctor, nurse or midwife at the birth? The report does not print a figure this answer needs for Batagram, so Dooram leaves it out rather than guess.

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement Survey, District Level, 2019-20, tables 4.3 B, 4.7 B, 4.12, 7.2.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Batagram?

Partly: too few of its clinics reported to compare some illnesses. Batagram sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Batagram, most recent last

A reported case means someone reached a clinic and a form was filed, so these count reports, not everyone who was ill.

Sources. Field Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance Division, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, weekly report. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.