Is anything worse than usual in Vavuniya 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 Vavuniya, newest week

1 case in the week to 13 September, about the same as a year ago.

0cases the week before
166so far this year, against 38 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: 64 of every 100 reports here this year.

  • Dengue47 in 100
  • Chickenpox17 in 100
  • Leptospirosis15 in 100
  • Tuberculosis6 in 100
  • Meningitis5 in 100
  • 8 others10 in 100

696 reports from Vavuniya 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 Vavuniya yet.

How does Vavuniya compare with the rest of Sri Lanka?

Too few cases in Vavuniya 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 Vavuniya?

18 government hospitals and clinics, from 7 primary care units.

  • 7Primary 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:

  • Vavuniya General Hospital
  • Divisional Hospital - Nedunkerny
  • Divisional Hospital - Periyaulukkulama
  • Divisional Hospital - Sithaparapuram
  • Mamaduwa Divisional Hospital
  • Neriyakulam Divisional 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?

39% 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 Vavuniya. Half of people are within 44 minutes.

  • Within an hour's walk61%
  • One to two hours28%
  • More than two hours11%

And to a larger hospital?

6 kmhalf of people live closer than this to a base, general or teaching hospital
20%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 Vavuniya?

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

Weekly reports with figures from Vavuniya, 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.