Where can people get care in Rawalpindi?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Rawalpindi's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 104 hospitals and 37 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:

  • Quaid-e-Azam International Hospital
  • General Block Hospital
  • Wah General hospital
  • Civil Hospital Taxila
  • Abbasi Hospital
  • AERO Hospital

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

How far is care from here?

1 in 3 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 Rawalpindi. Half of people are within 36 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk64%
  • One to two hours24%
  • More than two hours12%

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.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Rawalpindi?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 5 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 Rawalpindi could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    92% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 81% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    81% of recent births. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    54% of mothers. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    87% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 92% 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).

Sources. District maps: World Food Programme Spatial Data Infrastructure, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.