Is anything worse than usual in Dadu right now?

Yes. Hepatitis B, C and D is far above usual: 4.4× its usual for these weeks. Four more are above usual: typhoid, pneumonia in under-fives, flu-like illness and hepatitis A and E.

Far above usual · 4.4×

259 hepatitis B, C and D cases a week, against a usual 59.

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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 8 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 38, 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?

Malaria and non-cholera diarrhoea: 61 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Malaria31 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea30 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives14 in 100
  • Flu-like illness7 in 100
  • Tuberculosis6 in 100
  • 6 others12 in 100

258,254 reports from Dadu so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Flu-like illness, malaria and tuberculosis usually peak here in the next three months.

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

How does Dadu compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Dadu is the highest of the 26 districts with enough hepatitis B, C and D to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.9×Badin: 0.7×Dadu: 4.4×Ghotki: 1.4×Hyderabad: 2.0×Jacobabad: 0.9×Jamshoro: 0.6×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.5×Central Karachi: 1.2×Malir Karachi: 0.2×West Karachi: 0.2×Kashmore: 0.5×Khairpur: 0.9×Larkana: 0.5×Matiari: 0.8×Mirpur Khas: 0.8×Naushahro Feroze: 0.9×Sanghar: 0.7×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 1.3×Shikarpur: 0.3×Sujawal: 2.7×Sukkur: 2.9×Tando Allahyar: 0.8×Tando Muhammad Khan: 1.7×Tharparkar: 0.5×Thatta: 1.4×Umer Kot: 1.8×Dadu

Across Pakistan as a whole, hepatitis B, C and D is at 0.9× its usual; here it is 4.4×.

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 Dadu?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Dadu's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 3 clinics here so far. No hospitals are on their map yet.

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 (70%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Dadu. Half of people are within 109 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk30%
  • One to two hours25%
  • More than two hours45%

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 Sindh, 26% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care (36% 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 Dadu?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 3 of 5, worse on 1.

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 Dadu could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    78% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 72% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    64% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    54% of mothers. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    84% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. About the same as Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 87% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    0% of homes have none. Better 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).

Can we trust this week's numbers for Dadu?

Yes, for this week. Dadu sent figures in 42 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Dadu, 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.