Is anything worse than usual in Ampara right now?

Too few cases here this week to compare any illness with its usual.

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.

Dengue in Ampara, newest week

10 cases in the week to 13 September, about the same as a year ago.

12cases the week before
692so far this year, against 121 by now last year

Source: National Dengue Control Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, Weekly Dengue Update, week 37 of 2026. It counts suspected cases and comes out weeks sooner than the weekly report used elsewhere on this page, so its figures are newer and usually a little higher.

What makes the most people ill here?

Dengue and chickenpox: 72 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Dengue50 in 100
  • Chickenpox22 in 100
  • Leptospirosis10 in 100
  • Meningitis5 in 100
  • Dysentery4 in 100
  • 8 others9 in 100

1,192 reports from Ampara 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 Ampara yet.

How does Ampara compare with the rest of Sri Lanka?

Too few cases in Ampara to place it among Sri Lanka'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 Ampara?

28 government hospitals and clinics, from 18 primary care units.

  • 18Primary care unitsthe first stop for most illnesses
  • 7Divisional hospitalssmall local hospitals
  • 3District and base hospitalslarger hospitals with specialists

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:

  • Akkaraipattu Base Hospital
  • Base Hospital
  • Chenaikudiruppu Base Hospital
  • Dehiattakandiya Base Hospital
  • Mahaoya Base Hospital
  • Pottuvil Base Hospital

Source: Directorate of Planning, Ministry of Health and Mass Media, Sri Lanka, List of Hospitals and Hospital Bed Data, 2026; map: OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, licence ODbL 1.0.

How far is care from here?

1 in 3 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 Ampara. Half of people are within 33 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk65%
  • One to two hours19%
  • More than two hours15%

And to a larger hospital?

Not shown yet. The Ministry of Health's list of its hospitals counts 10 larger hospitals in Ampara, and Dooram has not yet placed 3 of them on the map. Any of them could be nearer to people here than the nearest one placed, so a distance now could be too long.

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; larger hospitals, the Ministry of Health's list of its hospitals (2026).

Can we trust this week's numbers for Ampara?

Yes, for this week. Ampara sent figures in 52 of the last 52 weekly reports.

Weekly reports with figures from Ampara, 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. Epidemiology Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka, weekly report. District maps: Survey Department of Sri Lanka, published as a Common Operational Dataset by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.