Is anything worse than usual in Khyber right now?

Yes. Severe chest infection is above usual: 1.5× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: non-cholera diarrhoea.

Above usual · 1.5×

20 severe chest infection cases a week, against a usual 13.

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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 5 reports behind "usual"
  • 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×

Too few clinics reported to compare: skin leishmaniasis.

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: 77 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea50 in 100
  • Malaria27 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea8 in 100
  • Skin leishmaniasis5 in 100
  • Dog bite3 in 100
  • 8 others7 in 100

42,185 reports from Khyber 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 Khyber yet.

How does Khyber compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Khyber is 6th of the 25 districts with enough severe chest infection to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.8×Bajaur: 0.1×Chitral Lower: 0.5×Chitral Upper: 0.5×Jaffarabad: 0.0×Karak: 0.0×Kharan: 4.7×Khyber: 1.5×Killa Abdullah: 1.5×Kohistan Lower: 0.0×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.0×Loralai: 1.2×Mansehra: 0.0×Mastung: 0.4×Nasirabad: 2.2×North Waziristan: 0.5×Nowshera: 2.3×Peshawar: 0.0×Sohbatpur: 1.0×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.3×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.0×Swabi: 1.8×Swat: 0.3×Tor Ghar: 0.0×Upper Kurram: 0.1×Usta Muhammad: 0.0×Khyber

Across Pakistan as a whole, severe chest infection is at 0.8× its usual; here it is 1.5×.

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 Khyber?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Khyber's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 2 hospitals 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?

Most people (76%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Khyber. Half of people are within 169 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk24%
  • One to two hours16%
  • More than two hours61%

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 the former tribal areas (FATA), 88% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care, 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 Khyber?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 3 of 5, worse on 0.

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 Khyber could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    77% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

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

    72% of recent births. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    37% of mothers. About the same as Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    100% 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 Khyber?

Partly: too few of its clinics reported to compare some illnesses. Khyber sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Khyber, 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.