Where can people get care in South Waziristan?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of South Waziristan's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 1 hospital and 2 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

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

How far is care from here?

Dooram does not show walking times for South Waziristan.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in South Waziristan: it would put 99% of people more than two hours from care, yet 3 of the 3 hospitals and clinics volunteers have mapped here sit where that map says care is over an hour away. A figure that cannot be right is left out rather than shown.

How well are children and mothers looked after in South Waziristan?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 2 of 5, 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 South Waziristan could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    7% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

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

    14% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    49% of mothers. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    100% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    30% of homes have none. Worse 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.