Is anything worse than usual in Nushki right now?

No. Everything reported here is at or below its usual level for this time of year.

172 non-cholera diarrhoea cases a week, against a usual 182.

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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 5 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 39, 2024
  • Week 36, 2025
  • Week 37, 2025
  • Week 38, 2025

The publisher's own list of its weekly reports

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Too few clinics reported to compare: suspected cholera.

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 bloody diarrhoea: 95 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea74 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea21 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives2 in 100
  • Suspected cholera1 in 100
  • Severe chest infection1 in 100
  • 3 others1 in 100

4,653 reports from Nushki 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 Nushki yet.

How does Nushki compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Nushki is 59th of the 80 districts with enough non-cholera diarrhoea to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.8×Abbottabad: 1.4×Badin: 1.8×Bajaur: 0.8×Bannu: 1.1×Barkhan: 0.8×Batagram: 1.5×Buner: 1.4×Chagai: 1.2×Charsadda: 1.4×Chitral Lower: 1.1×Chitral Upper: 1.2×D. I. Khan: 1.3×Dadu: 1.2×Lower Dir: 1.3×Upper Dir: 1.9×Ghotki: 1.3×Hangu: 2.0×Haripur: 1.3×Harnai: 1.5×Hyderabad: 1.3×Jacobabad: 0.8×Jaffarabad: 0.3×Jamshoro: 1.1×Jhal Magsi: 0.4×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.8×Central Karachi: 1.3×East Karachi: 0.9×Karachi Keamari: 1.3×Korangi Karachi: 1.2×Malir Karachi: 0.7×South Karachi: 1.3×West Karachi: 1.3×Karak: 1.5×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 1.0×Khairpur: 0.9×Kharan: 1.3×Khyber: 1.4×Killa Abdullah: 1.4×Kohat: 1.2×Kohistan Lower: 1.9×Kohistan Upper: 1.0×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.9×Lakki Marwat: 1.1×Larkana: 0.9×Lasbela: 1.2×Loralai: 1.5×Malakand: 1.7×Mansehra: 1.3×Mardan: 2.0×Mastung: 1.0×Matiari: 0.9×Mirpur Khas: 1.0×Nasirabad: 0.9×Naushahro Feroze: 0.8×North Waziristan: 1.3×Nowshera: 1.3×Nushki: 0.9×Peshawar: 1.5×Sanghar: 1.2×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.8×Shangla: 1.2×Shikarpur: 1.0×Sohbatpur: 0.8×South Waziristan (Lower): 1.9×South Waziristan (Upper): 0.4×Sujawal: 1.0×Sukkur: 1.0×Swabi: 1.8×Swat: 1.4×Tando Allahyar: 1.1×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.9×Tank: 1.0×Tharparkar: 0.8×Thatta: 1.2×Tor Ghar: 1.7×Umer Kot: 1.1×Upper Kurram: 1.5×Usta Muhammad: 1.3×Nushki

Across Pakistan as a whole, non-cholera diarrhoea is at 0.8× its usual; here it is 0.9×.

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 Nushki. Half of people are within 918 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 Nushki?

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

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 Nushki could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    59% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 28% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    61% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    71% of mothers. Better 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.

    In 2014-15: 93% 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 Nushki?

Partly: too few of its clinics reported to compare some illnesses. Nushki sent figures in 33 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Nushki, 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.