Is anything worse than usual in Dera Bugti right now?

Too few of its clinics reported in those weeks to compare.

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 and malaria: 65 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea34 in 100
  • Malaria31 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives14 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea10 in 100
  • Typhoid8 in 100
  • 2 others3 in 100

284 reports from Dera Bugti 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 Dera Bugti yet.

How does Dera Bugti compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Dera Bugti to place it among Pakistan's districts this week.

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.

How far is care from here?

Dooram does not show walking times for Dera Bugti.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Dera Bugti: it would put 96% of people more than two hours from care. A figure that cannot be right is left out rather than shown.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Dera Bugti?

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 Dera Bugti could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    50% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 0% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    34% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

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

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    100% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 92% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    42% 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).

Can we trust this week's numbers for Dera Bugti?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Dera Bugti sent figures in 19 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Dera Bugti, 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.