Is anything worse than usual in Umer Kot right now?

Yes. Hepatitis B, C and D is above usual: 1.8× its usual for these weeks. One more is above usual: malaria.

Above usual · 1.8×

70 hepatitis B, C and D cases a week, against a usual 40.

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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?

Malaria and non-cholera diarrhoea: 87 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Malaria57 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea30 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives5 in 100
  • Tuberculosis5 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea2 in 100
  • 5 others1 in 100

178,643 reports from Umer Kot 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 Umer Kot compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Umer Kot is 5th 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×Umer Kot

Across Pakistan as a whole, hepatitis B, C and D is at 0.9× its usual; here it is 1.8×.

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 Umer Kot?

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

  • BHU Haji Moula Bux Rajar
  • BHU Mahendre-Jo-Par
  • BHU Nabisar Thar
  • BHU Okraro Chania
  • BHU Padhriyo Farm
  • BHU Talhi

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

How far is care from here?

Most people (85%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Umer Kot. Half of people are within 170 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk15%
  • One to two hours20%
  • 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 Umer Kot?

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 Umer Kot could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    57% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 63% 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?

    29% of mothers. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    93% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 53% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    67% 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 Umer Kot?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Umer Kot, 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.