Is anything worse than usual in Tharparkar right now?

No. Everything reported here is at or below its usual level for this time of year.

453 tuberculosis cases a week, against a usual 468.

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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: 65 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea35 in 100
  • Malaria30 in 100
  • Flu-like illness15 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives10 in 100
  • Tuberculosis7 in 100
  • 7 others3 in 100

188,363 reports from Tharparkar so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Malaria usually peaks here in the next three months.

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

How does Tharparkar compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Tharparkar is 13th of the 28 districts with enough tuberculosis to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.7×Badin: 1.1×Dadu: 1.2×Ghotki: 1.3×Hyderabad: 1.8×Jacobabad: 1.6×Jamshoro: 1.2×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.9×Central Karachi: 0.4×East Karachi: 1.3×Korangi Karachi: 1.2×Malir Karachi: 0.7×West Karachi: 1.2×Kashmore: 0.4×Khairpur: 0.7×Larkana: 0.8×Matiari: 1.1×Mirpur Khas: 0.9×Naushahro Feroze: 0.6×Sanghar: 1.0×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.7×Shikarpur: 0.9×Sujawal: 0.6×Sukkur: 0.9×Tando Allahyar: 0.8×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.9×Tharparkar: 1.0×Thatta: 2.8×Umer Kot: 0.9×Tharparkar

Across Pakistan as a whole, tuberculosis is at 0.7× its usual; here it is 1.0×.

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 Tharparkar?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Tharparkar's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 4 hospitals here so far. No clinics are on their map yet.

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 khensar
  • Civil Hospital, Chachro

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 Tharparkar.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Tharparkar: it would put 95% of people more than two hours from care, yet 4 of the 4 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 Tharparkar?

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 Tharparkar could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    25% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 22% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    23% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    19% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    95% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 59% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    47% 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 Tharparkar?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Tharparkar, 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.