Is anything worse than usual in Mannar 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.

What makes the most people ill here?

Dengue: 74 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Dengue74 in 100
  • Chickenpox9 in 100
  • Leptospirosis6 in 100
  • Tuberculosis5 in 100
  • Meningitis3 in 100
  • 7 others3 in 100

713 reports from Mannar 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 Mannar yet.

How does Mannar compare with the rest of Sri Lanka?

Too few cases in Mannar 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 Mannar?

22 government hospitals and clinics, from 11 primary care units.

  • 11Primary care unitsthe first stop for most illnesses
  • 9Divisional hospitalssmall local hospitals
  • 2District 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:

  • District General Hospital
  • District Ayurvedic Hospital, Mannar
  • Divisional Hospital Adampan
  • Divisional Hospital Murunkan
  • Divisional Hospital Vidathalthivu
  • Vankalai Hospital Complex

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?

57% of 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 Mannar. Half of people are within 77 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk43%
  • One to two hours19%
  • More than two hours38%

And to a larger hospital?

9 kmhalf of people live closer than this to a base, general or teaching hospital
45%live more than 10 km away, in a straight line; roads are longer

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), with locations from OpenStreetMap contributors.

Can we trust this week's numbers for Mannar?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Mannar, 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.