Is anything worse than usual in Thatta right now?

Yes. Tuberculosis is well above usual: 2.8× its usual for these weeks. Three more are above usual: typhoid, hepatitis B, C and D and flu-like illness.

Well above usual · 2.8×

81 tuberculosis cases a week, against a usual 29.

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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 7 reports behind "usual"
  • Week 36, 2024
  • Week 37, 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 flu-like illness: 58 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea29 in 100
  • Flu-like illness29 in 100
  • Malaria28 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives6 in 100
  • Hepatitis B, C and D3 in 100
  • 7 others5 in 100

158,791 reports from Thatta so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

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

2024 peak2025 peakNext ten weeks

How does Thatta compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Thatta is the highest 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×Thatta

Across Pakistan as a whole, tuberculosis is at 0.7× its usual; here it is 2.8×.

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 Thatta?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Thatta's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 20 hospitals 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

Hospitals named on the map include:

  • Civil Hospital Thatt
  • BHU Chatochand
  • BHU Ghorabari
  • BHU phir Jo goth

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

How far is care from here?

Most people (82%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Thatta. Half of people are within 174 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk18%
  • One to two hours17%
  • More than two hours65%

The map these times come from is missing some of the hospitals and clinics here, so the real walk is probably shorter than shown.

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 Thatta?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 1 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 Thatta 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: 38% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    68% of recent births. About the same as Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    26% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    91% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 91% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    32% 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 Thatta?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Thatta, 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.