Thursday, December 29, 2005
Dr. Sanjay Gupta Special on Survival, Loss From Pakistani Quake Zone
Source: CNN Press Release CNN’s senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta revisits ravaged Northern Pakistan to provide an in-depth look at the impact of the devastating earthquake and the continuing recovery efforts in the region. The strongest quake to strike Pakistan in more than 70 years, the October natural disaster left nearly 90,000 dead and more than three million homeless.A CNN Special: Dr. Sanjay Gupta Reports from the Quake Zone, airs Saturday, Dec. 31, at 6 p.m. and replays on Sunday, Jan. 1, at 7 p.m. (ET)
Dr. Gupta visits refugees now living in non-winterized tent cities and shares their stories of life and hope, loss and death.
“The snow has started to fall in many places in Pakistan…and it is a tremendously large problem,” Dr. Gupta reports during the special. “Obviously it is very cold, but even more pragmatically speaking, it just makes this area uninhabitable…some of the people here are telling me they can’t even dig to bury people…they can’t even dig their own graves.”
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