Is anything worse than usual in Quetta right now?

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

Too few clinics reported to compare: bloody diarrhoea, flu-like illness, hepatitis B, C and D, malaria, 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?

Flu-like illness and non-cholera diarrhoea: 81 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness48 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea33 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives10 in 100
  • Severe chest infection3 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea3 in 100
  • 8 others3 in 100

22,005 reports from Quetta 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 Quetta yet.

How does Quetta compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Quetta 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 Quetta?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Quetta's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 21 hospitals and 4 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:

  • City International Hospital
  • Heart & General Hospital
  • Civil Hospital Quetta
  • Akram Hospital
  • Al-Shifa Hospital
  • Benazir Hospital

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 Quetta. Half of people are within 36 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk73%
  • One to two hours14%
  • More than two hours13%

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 Quetta?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 1 of 4, 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 Quetta could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    56% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 58% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    78% of recent births. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    32% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    76% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 89% here, 72% across Pakistan.

Not answered for Quetta: Do homes have a toilet? The report does not print a figure this answer needs for Quetta, so Dooram leaves it out rather than guess.

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. 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 Quetta?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Quetta sent figures in 35 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Quetta, 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.