The Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report (WMMR) is published by the Ministry of Health of Pakistan (MOH) and the World Health Organization (WHO). TheWMMR is built on surveillance data that health service providers and NGOs transmit on a weekly basis from health facilities and hospitals in those areas affected by the earthquake that struck Pakistan on 8 October 2005.
The WMMR objectives are to monitor the trend of health conditions over a period of time and provide vital information to all health partners. The WMMR is only a snapshot of the health conditions in those facilities where events are registered and data collected and does not necessarily reflect the situation from other health facilities.
The WMMR is a publication that has been developed for emergencies and previously used in other areas such as the Darfur Crisis.
The WMMR is produced with the financial support of AAI Australia, Americares, CIDA, Denmark, DFID, ECHO, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Monaco, Norway, SIDA, Slovak Republic, Switzerland, Turkey, USAID
Highlights
- In the past month (Epidemiological weeks 07-10 inclusive), 143,853 health events under surveillance were reported including 80 deaths
-This week, there were 303 (90%) reporting units contributing to the report.
- In week 10, Total 94,080 consultations were reported, with 17 deaths
- This week rate of acute watery diarrhoea has increased as compare with last week (13%)
- The ARI this week is less than 1 percentage point higher than the rate in week 10 of 2006
- There were no cases of acute flaccid paralysis, tetanus or haemorrhagic fever reported in this week.