Is anything worse than usual in Washuk right now?

Too few of its clinics reported in those weeks to compare.

Too few clinics reported to compare: bloody diarrhoea, flu-like illness, malaria, mumps, non-cholera diarrhoea, pneumonia in under-fives, severe chest infection, suspected cholera, typhoid.

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?

Flu-like illness and non-cholera diarrhoea: 67 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness44 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea23 in 100
  • Malaria16 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea9 in 100
  • Severe chest infection3 in 100
  • 4 others5 in 100

1,872 reports from Washuk 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 Washuk yet.

How does Washuk compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Washuk to place it among Pakistan's districts this week.

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 Washuk?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Washuk's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 5 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:

  • hospital

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 Washuk.

The travel-time map these figures come from is missing clinics in Washuk: it would put 98% of people more than two hours from care, yet 5 of the 5 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 Washuk?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 2 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 Washuk could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    23% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 4% 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?

    47% of mothers. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do children with diarrhoea get ORS?

    97% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 93% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    18% 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 Washuk?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Washuk sent figures in 4 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Washuk, 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.