Is anything worse than usual in Zhob 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?

Non-cholera diarrhoea and pneumonia in under-fives: 50 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Non-cholera diarrhoea31 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives19 in 100
  • Severe chest infection17 in 100
  • Flu-like illness17 in 100
  • Malaria8 in 100
  • 6 others8 in 100

4,072 reports from Zhob 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 Zhob yet.

How does Zhob compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Zhob 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 Zhob?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Zhob's hospitals. Volunteers have mapped 1 hospital 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

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

How far is care from here?

Most people (96%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Zhob. Half of people are within 531 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk4%
  • One to two hours3%
  • More than two hours92%

What people say

In Balochistan, 74% of women say the distance to a health facility is a big problem when they need care (80% 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.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Zhob?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Zhob sent figures in 25 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Zhob, 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.