Is anything worse than usual in Gwadar right now?

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

Too few clinics reported to compare: bloody diarrhoea, flu-like illness, malaria, non-cholera diarrhoea, typhoid.

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: 92 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness56 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea36 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea3 in 100
  • Malaria3 in 100
  • Typhoid1 in 100
  • 8 others1 in 100

34,930 reports from Gwadar 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 Gwadar yet.

How does Gwadar compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Gwadar 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.

Where can people get care in Gwadar?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Gwadar's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 1 hospital here so far. No clinics 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.

HospitalClinic or doctor

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

How far is care from here?

Dooram does not show walking times for Gwadar.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Gwadar: it would put 99% 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 Gwadar?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 2 of 5, worse on 3.

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 Gwadar could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    41% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 35% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    38% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    21% 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: 100% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    6% 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 Gwadar?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Gwadar sent figures in 29 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Gwadar, 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.