Is anything worse than usual in Sukkur right now?

Yes. Hepatitis B, C and D is well above usual: 2.9× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: flu-like illness.

Well above usual · 2.9×

282 hepatitis B, C and D cases a week, against a usual 98.

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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 8 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 2024
  • Week 38, 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?

Flu-like illness and malaria: 59 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness33 in 100
  • Malaria26 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea24 in 100
  • Tuberculosis6 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives4 in 100
  • 5 others7 in 100

178,485 reports from Sukkur so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Pneumonia in under-fives, malaria and tuberculosis usually peak here in the next three months.

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

How does Sukkur compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Sukkur is 2nd of the 26 districts with enough hepatitis B, C and D to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.9×Badin: 0.7×Dadu: 4.4×Ghotki: 1.4×Hyderabad: 2.0×Jacobabad: 0.9×Jamshoro: 0.6×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.5×Central Karachi: 1.2×Malir Karachi: 0.2×West Karachi: 0.2×Kashmore: 0.5×Khairpur: 0.9×Larkana: 0.5×Matiari: 0.8×Mirpur Khas: 0.8×Naushahro Feroze: 0.9×Sanghar: 0.7×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 1.3×Shikarpur: 0.3×Sujawal: 2.7×Sukkur: 2.9×Tando Allahyar: 0.8×Tando Muhammad Khan: 1.7×Tharparkar: 0.5×Thatta: 1.4×Umer Kot: 1.8×Sukkur

Across Pakistan as a whole, hepatitis B, C and D is at 0.9× its usual; here it is 2.9×.

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 Sukkur?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Sukkur's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 16 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:

  • Al khair General Hospital Sukkur
  • BHU New Pind
  • Anwar Paracha Hospital
  • Bhatti Child Care Hospital
  • Bhatti hospital
  • Bhatti Hospital

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

How far is care from here?

59% of 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 Sukkur. Half of people are within 83 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk41%
  • One to two hours23%
  • More than two hours36%

What people say

In Sindh, 26% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care (36% 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 Sukkur?

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 Sukkur could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    40% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 35% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    65% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    33% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    97% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

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

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    7% 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 Sukkur?

Yes, for this week. Sukkur sent figures in 42 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Sukkur, 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.