Is anything worse than usual in Tando Muhammad Khan right now?

Yes. Hepatitis B, C and D is above usual: 1.7× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: dog bite.

Above usual · 1.7×

98 hepatitis B, C and D cases a week, against a usual 59.

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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?

Non-cholera diarrhoea and malaria: 73 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea41 in 100
  • Malaria32 in 100
  • Tuberculosis15 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives4 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea3 in 100
  • 6 others5 in 100

94,923 reports from Tando Muhammad Khan so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Flu-like illness and tuberculosis usually peak here in the next three months.

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

How does Tando Muhammad Khan compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Tando Muhammad Khan is 6th 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×Tando Muhammad Khan

Across Pakistan as a whole, hepatitis B, C and D is at 0.9× its usual; here it is 1.7×.

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 Tando Muhammad Khan?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Tando Muhammad Khan's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 9 hospitals and 7 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:

  • Civil Hospital Talhar
  • Aga Khan University Hospital Laboratory
  • Cardio Hospital
  • Faraz Hospital
  • Memon Hospital
  • NAWAB ZUBAIR TALPUR ED HOSPITAL GROUND

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 Tando Muhammad Khan.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Tando Muhammad Khan: it would put 92% of people more than two hours from care, yet 16 of the 16 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 Tando Muhammad Khan?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 1 of 5, worse on 4.

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 Tando Muhammad Khan could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    21% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 34% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    52% of recent births. Worse 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?

    80% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 60% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    14% 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).

Can we trust this week's numbers for Tando Muhammad Khan?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Tando Muhammad Khan, 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.