Is anything worse than usual in Kohlu 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: 78 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness48 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea30 in 100
  • Malaria11 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea4 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives3 in 100
  • 5 others4 in 100

2,996 reports from Kohlu 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 Kohlu yet.

How does Kohlu compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Kohlu 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?

Most people (100%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Kohlu. Half of people are within 1147 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk0%
  • One to two hours0%
  • More than two hours100%

What people say

In Balochistan, 74% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care (80% 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 Kohlu?

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 Kohlu could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    0% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 30% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    28% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    12% 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: 47% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    2% 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 Kohlu?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Kohlu sent figures in 18 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Kohlu, 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.