Is anything worse than usual in Peshawar right now?

Yes. Dog bite is above usual: 1.5× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: non-cholera diarrhoea.

Above usual · 1.5×

9.0 dog bite cases a week, against a usual 5.9.

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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 7 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • 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×

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: 91 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea91 in 100
  • Flu-like illness4 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea2 in 100
  • Measles1 in 100
  • Malaria1 in 100
  • 8 others1 in 100

160,715 reports from Peshawar 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 Peshawar yet.

How does Peshawar compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Peshawar is 25th of the 56 districts with enough dog bite to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 1.0×Abbottabad: 1.4×Badin: 1.2×Bajaur: 1.5×Barkhan: 0.6×Buner: 5.5×Charsadda: 1.3×Chitral Lower: 0.7×D. I. Khan: 2.1×Dadu: 1.0×Lower Dir: 1.7×Upper Dir: 2.9×Ghotki: 1.6×Haripur: 5.1×Hyderabad: 3.6×Jacobabad: 1.4×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 2.0×Jhal Magsi: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 1.3×Central Karachi: 6.1×East Karachi: 4.5×Malir Karachi: 1.3×West Karachi: 1.4×Karak: 2.2×Kashmore: 1.4×Khairpur: 1.5×Khyber: 1.1×Kohat: 1.4×Lakki Marwat: 1.7×Larkana: 2.7×Lasbela: 2.1×Loralai: 0.5×Mardan: 5.4×Mastung: 0.2×Matiari: 2.5×Mirpur Khas: 2.1×Nasirabad: 0.7×Naushahro Feroze: 1.4×Nowshera: 5.3×Peshawar: 1.5×Sanghar: 2.0×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 1.8×Shangla: 2.6×Shikarpur: 1.4×Sohbatpur: 0.0×South Waziristan (Lower): 0.5×Sujawal: 1.4×Sukkur: 1.2×Swabi: 1.0×Swat: 2.1×Tando Allahyar: 2.8×Tando Muhammad Khan: 1.4×Thatta: 1.1×Tor Ghar: 2.0×Upper Kurram: 1.2×Usta Muhammad: 0.3×Peshawar

Across Pakistan as a whole, dog bite is at 1.0× 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 Peshawar?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Peshawar's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 62 hospitals and 24 clinics here so far.

Where volunteers on OpenStreetMap have mapped hospitals and clinics. Their map shows where they have been, not everything that exists.

HospitalClinic or doctor

Hospitals named on the map include:

  • Khyber Teaching Hospital - Accident and Emergency
  • Kuwait Teaching Hospital
  • Mercy Teaching Hospital
  • Naseer Teaching Hospital
  • Northwest General Hospital & Research Center
  • Ahmed Medical Institute

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, licence ODbL 1.0.

How far is care from here?

1 in 4 people live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Peshawar. Half of people are within 27 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk76%
  • One to two hours17%
  • More than two hours7%

What people say

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 50% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care (58% 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 Peshawar?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 4 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 Peshawar could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    74% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 74% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    74% of recent births. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    42% of mothers. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    85% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. About the same as Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 70% 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 Peshawar?

Yes, for this week. Peshawar sent figures in 40 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Peshawar, 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.