Is anything worse than usual in Panjgur right now?

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

Too few clinics reported to compare: bloody diarrhoea, dog bite, flu-like illness, malaria, mumps, non-cholera diarrhoea, pneumonia in under-fives, severe chest infection, suspected cholera, 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: 64 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Malaria34 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea30 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives16 in 100
  • Flu-like illness11 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea6 in 100
  • 6 others3 in 100

1,540 reports from Panjgur 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 Panjgur yet.

How does Panjgur compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Panjgur 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 (86%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Panjgur. Half of people are within 590 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk14%
  • One to two hours12%
  • More than two hours74%

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.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Panjgur?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Panjgur sent figures in 11 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Panjgur, 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.