Is anything worse than usual in Chitral Upper right now?

No. Everything reported here is at or below its usual level for this time of year.

267 non-cholera diarrhoea cases a week, against a usual 216.

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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 7 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • 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?

Non-cholera diarrhoea: 79 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea79 in 100
  • Flu-like illness7 in 100
  • Typhoid4 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea2 in 100
  • Malaria2 in 100
  • 7 others6 in 100

6,857 reports from Chitral Upper 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 Chitral Upper yet.

How does Chitral Upper compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Chitral Upper is 36th of the 80 districts with enough non-cholera diarrhoea to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.8×Abbottabad: 1.4×Badin: 1.8×Bajaur: 0.8×Bannu: 1.1×Barkhan: 0.8×Batagram: 1.5×Buner: 1.4×Chagai: 1.2×Charsadda: 1.4×Chitral Lower: 1.1×Chitral Upper: 1.2×D. I. Khan: 1.3×Dadu: 1.2×Lower Dir: 1.3×Upper Dir: 1.9×Ghotki: 1.3×Hangu: 2.0×Haripur: 1.3×Harnai: 1.5×Hyderabad: 1.3×Jacobabad: 0.8×Jaffarabad: 0.3×Jamshoro: 1.1×Jhal Magsi: 0.4×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.8×Central Karachi: 1.3×East Karachi: 0.9×Karachi Keamari: 1.3×Korangi Karachi: 1.2×Malir Karachi: 0.7×South Karachi: 1.3×West Karachi: 1.3×Karak: 1.5×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 1.0×Khairpur: 0.9×Kharan: 1.3×Khyber: 1.4×Killa Abdullah: 1.4×Kohat: 1.2×Kohistan Lower: 1.9×Kohistan Upper: 1.0×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.9×Lakki Marwat: 1.1×Larkana: 0.9×Lasbela: 1.2×Loralai: 1.5×Malakand: 1.7×Mansehra: 1.3×Mardan: 2.0×Mastung: 1.0×Matiari: 0.9×Mirpur Khas: 1.0×Nasirabad: 0.9×Naushahro Feroze: 0.8×North Waziristan: 1.3×Nowshera: 1.3×Nushki: 0.9×Peshawar: 1.5×Sanghar: 1.2×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.8×Shangla: 1.2×Shikarpur: 1.0×Sohbatpur: 0.8×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.9×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.4×Sujawal: 1.0×Sukkur: 1.0×Swabi: 1.8×Swat: 1.4×Tando Allahyar: 1.1×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.9×Tank: 1.0×Tharparkar: 0.8×Thatta: 1.2×Tor Ghar: 1.7×Umer Kot: 1.1×Upper Kurram: 1.5×Usta Muhammad: 1.3×Chitral Upper

Across Pakistan as a whole, non-cholera diarrhoea is at 0.8× its usual; here it is 1.2×.

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 Chitral Upper?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Chitral Upper's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 3 hospitals and 3 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:

  • Hospital
  • Tehsil Headquarters Hospital

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

How far is care from here?

Most people (92%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Chitral Upper. Half of people are within 395 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk8%
  • One to two hours9%
  • More than two hours83%

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.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Chitral Upper?

Yes, for this week. Chitral Upper sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Chitral Upper, 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.