Is anything worse than usual in Kech right now?

Yes. Flu-like illness is above usual: 1.3× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: bloody diarrhoea.

Above usual · 1.3×

893 flu-like illness cases a week, against a usual 669.

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

  • Week 36, 2026
  • Week 37, 2026
  • Week 39, 2026
The 4 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

⅛×usual8×

Too few clinics reported to compare: 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: 73 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness47 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea26 in 100
  • Malaria18 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea4 in 100
  • Dengue2 in 100
  • 8 others3 in 100

20,793 reports from Kech 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 Kech yet.

How does Kech compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Kech is 17th 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×Kech

Across Pakistan as a whole, flu-like illness is at 1.1× its usual; here it is 1.3×.

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 Kech?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Kech'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

Hospitals named on the map include:

  • Shakeel Haji Dad Mohammed Hospital

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 Kech.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Kech: it would put 94% 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 Kech?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 1 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 Kech could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    34% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

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

    57% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    24% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    98% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    12% of homes have none. About the same as 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 Kech?

Partly: too few of its clinics reported to compare some illnesses. Kech sent figures in 21 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Kech, 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.