Is anything worse than usual in Tor Ghar right now?

Yes. Dog bite is well above usual: 2.0× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: non-cholera diarrhoea.

Well above usual · 2.0×

15 dog bite cases a week, against a usual 7.3.

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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 malaria: 82 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea58 in 100
  • Malaria24 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea7 in 100
  • Dog bite5 in 100
  • Skin leishmaniasis2 in 100
  • 5 others4 in 100

7,853 reports from Tor Ghar so far in 2026.

Which illnesses are coming into season here?

Too few weeks of reports, or too few cases, to show a season in Tor Ghar yet.

How does Tor Ghar compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Tor Ghar is 19th of the 56 districts with enough dog bite to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 1.0×Abbottabad: 1.4×Badin: 1.2×Bajaur: 1.5×Barkhan: 0.6×Buner: 5.5×Charsadda: 1.3×Chitral Lower: 0.7×D. I. Khan: 2.1×Dadu: 1.0×Lower Dir: 1.7×Upper Dir: 2.9×Ghotki: 1.6×Haripur: 5.1×Hyderabad: 3.6×Jacobabad: 1.4×Jaffarabad: 0.1×Jamshoro: 2.0×Jhal Magsi: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 1.3×Central Karachi: 6.1×East Karachi: 4.5×Malir Karachi: 1.3×West Karachi: 1.4×Karak: 2.2×Kashmore: 1.4×Khairpur: 1.5×Khyber: 1.1×Kohat: 1.4×Lakki Marwat: 1.7×Larkana: 2.7×Lasbela: 2.1×Loralai: 0.5×Mardan: 5.4×Mastung: 0.2×Matiari: 2.5×Mirpur Khas: 2.1×Nasirabad: 0.7×Naushahro Feroze: 1.4×Nowshera: 5.3×Peshawar: 1.5×Sanghar: 2.0×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 1.8×Shangla: 2.6×Shikarpur: 1.4×Sohbatpur: 0.0×South Waziristan (Lower): 0.5×Sujawal: 1.4×Sukkur: 1.2×Swabi: 1.0×Swat: 2.1×Tando Allahyar: 2.8×Tando Muhammad Khan: 1.4×Thatta: 1.1×Tor Ghar: 2.0×Upper Kurram: 1.2×Usta Muhammad: 0.3×Tor Ghar

Across Pakistan as a whole, dog bite is at 1.0× its usual; here it is 2.0×.

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.

How far is care from here?

Dooram does not show walking times for Tor Ghar.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Tor Ghar: it would put 100% of people more than two hours from care. A figure that cannot be right is left out rather than shown.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Tor Ghar?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 0 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 Tor Ghar could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    30% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 2% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    34% of recent births. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    6% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    82% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. About the same as Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 68% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    28% 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 Tor Ghar?

Yes, for this week. Tor Ghar sent figures in 39 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Tor Ghar, 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.