Is anything worse than usual in Mohmand right now?

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

Too few clinics reported to compare: bloody diarrhoea, dengue, dog bite, flu-like illness, malaria, non-cholera diarrhoea, severe chest infection, 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?

Malaria and non-cholera diarrhoea: 45 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Malaria23 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea22 in 100
  • Flu-like illness21 in 100
  • Severe chest infection20 in 100
  • Skin leishmaniasis9 in 100
  • 8 others5 in 100

13,431 reports from Mohmand 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 Mohmand yet.

How does Mohmand compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Mohmand 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 Mohmand?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Mohmand'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?

Most people (99%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Mohmand. Half of people are within 277 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk1%
  • One to two hours10%
  • More than two hours90%

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 Mohmand?

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 Mohmand could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    42% 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?

    59% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    14% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    95% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    28% 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 Mohmand?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Mohmand sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Mohmand, 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.