Is anything worse than usual in Ziarat right now?

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

Too few clinics reported to compare: bloody diarrhoea, dog bite, flu-like illness, malaria, 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: 65 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Flu-like illness33 in 100
  • Non-cholera diarrhoea32 in 100
  • Pneumonia in under-fives11 in 100
  • Malaria8 in 100
  • Bloody diarrhoea8 in 100
  • 6 others8 in 100

16,584 reports from Ziarat 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 Ziarat yet.

How does Ziarat compare with the rest of Pakistan?

Too few cases in Ziarat 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 Ziarat?

Dooram has not yet found a government list of Ziarat'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 (87%) live more than an hour's walk from a hospital or clinic.

Walking time to the nearest hospital or clinic, for everyone living in Ziarat. Half of people are within 202 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk13%
  • One to two hours16%
  • More than two hours71%

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.

How well are children and mothers looked after in Ziarat?

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 Ziarat could reach.

  • Are children fully vaccinated?

    27% of children aged 1 to 2, by their vaccination card. Worse than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 29% here, 60% across Pakistan.

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

    38% 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?

    100% of children under 5 who had diarrhoea. Better than Pakistan as a whole.

    In 2014-15: 89% here, 72% across Pakistan.

  • Do homes have a toilet?

    47% 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 Ziarat?

Not this week: too few of its clinics reported to compare any illness. Ziarat sent figures in 29 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Ziarat, 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.