Is anything worse than usual in West Karachi right now?

Yes. Bloody diarrhoea is well above usual: 2.0× its usual for these weeks. Three more are above usual: flu-like illness, dog bite and non-cholera diarrhoea.

Well above usual · 2.0×

64 bloody diarrhoea cases a week, against a usual 31.

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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?

Flu-like illness and non-cholera diarrhoea: 76 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness46 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea30 in 100
  • Malaria9 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives7 in 100
  • Tuberculosis3 in 100
  • 6 others5 in 100

93,687 reports from West Karachi 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 West Karachi compare with the rest of Pakistan?

West Karachi is 6th of the 72 districts with enough bloody diarrhoea to compare, each against its own usual.

usual⅛×8×32×country 0.9×Abbottabad: 1.6×Badin: 1.7×Bajaur: 0.4×Bannu: 0.6×Barkhan: 1.1×Chagai: 0.7×Charsadda: 0.8×Chitral Lower: 1.1×Chitral Upper: 1.0×D. I. Khan: 1.6×Dadu: 1.0×Lower Dir: 1.0×Upper Dir: 1.2×Ghotki: 1.8×Hangu: 1.6×Haripur: 0.2×Harnai: 1.1×Hyderabad: 2.4×Jacobabad: 0.8×Jaffarabad: 0.2×Jamshoro: 1.4×Kalat: 0.0×Kambar Shahdad Kot: 0.6×Central Karachi: 1.7×East Karachi: 1.2×Korangi Karachi: 2.2×Malir Karachi: 0.6×West Karachi: 2.0×Karak: 2.5×Kashmore: 0.8×Kech: 1.3×Khairpur: 0.7×Kharan: 1.3×Khyber: 0.9×Killa Abdullah: 1.2×Kohat: 2.3×Kohistan Lower: 1.1×Kohistan Upper: 0.4×Kolai Palas Kohistan: 0.1×Lakki Marwat: 0.2×Larkana: 0.8×Lasbela: 1.0×Loralai: 1.4×Malakand: 1.4×Mardan: 2.2×Mastung: 0.5×Matiari: 1.0×Mirpur Khas: 1.3×Nasirabad: 1.1×Naushahro Feroze: 0.5×North Waziristan: 0.2×Nowshera: 1.1×Nushki: 0.8×Peshawar: 1.1×Sanghar: 0.8×Shaheed Benazir Abad: 0.7×Shangla: 0.6×Shikarpur: 0.9×Sohbatpur: 0.9×Sujawal: 0.2×Sukkur: 0.8×Swabi: 0.6×Swat: 1.5×Tando Allahyar: 0.6×Tando Muhammad Khan: 0.7×Tank: 0.8×Tharparkar: 1.0×Thatta: 0.6×Tor Ghar: 0.8×Umer Kot: 1.1×Upper Kurram: 0.4×Usta Muhammad: 1.5×West Karachi

Across Pakistan as a whole, bloody diarrhoea is at 0.9× 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.

Where can people get care in West Karachi?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of West Karachi's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 86 hospitals and 44 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:

  • Banaras National Hospital
  • Abdul Rehman General Hospital
  • BHU Govt. Dispensary
  • A.R Dental Hospital
  • Abdullah Abad Hospital
  • Ahmed Ibrahim Welfare Eye Hospital

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

How far is care from here?

1 in 10 people live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in West Karachi. Half of people are within 14 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk90%
  • One to two hours10%
  • More than two hoursless than 1%

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 West Karachi?

Better than Pakistan as a whole on 3 of 4, worse on 1.

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 West Karachi could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

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

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

    91% of recent births. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

  • Do mothers get a check-up after birth?

    46% 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.

Not answered for West Karachi: Do homes have a toilet? The report does not print a figure this answer needs for West Karachi, so Dooram leaves it out rather than guess.

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. 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 West Karachi?

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

Weekly reports with figures from West Karachi, 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.