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(2 Jul 2007)
1. Wide of exterior of Turbat Government Hospital
2. Two women carrying sick children to hospital
3. Wide of several women and children sitting on chairs and on floor in waiting room
4. Woman holding sick child sitting on floor
5. Close-up of sick child
6. Pan from doctor in consulting room to crowd of women
7. Various of doctor examining sick child
8. Close-up of child crying
9. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Dr. Abdul Qadir, Turbat Government Hospital:
"We have received lots of cases of diarrhoea and pneumonia and some cases of fractures caused by the floods. The number of patients coming in has gone up by three or four times since before the floods in this hospital."
10. Women in corridor of hospital

Pakistan has called on the international community to rush aid to some one (m) million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts on Monday that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days.
Floods due to a cyclone and rain have left as many as 100 people dead in south-western Pakistan, a senior relief official said on Sunday, but unofficial estimates are considerably higher.
Some 500 people have died across the subcontinent, in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, since the start of the monsoon season in early July.
Following a two-day tour of the flooded area on Sunday, Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz asked for relief and rehabilitation aid from foreign countries, international agencies and private donors.
In Turbat, one of the worst-hit towns, a government coordinator for the national rural support programme said waterborne diseases were a threat due to a lack of clean drinking water.
He said there were already reports of a diarrhoea outbreaks in some flood-hit areas.
Turbat's few hospitals were already overwhelmed by the numbers of patients arriving suffering from diarrhoea and pneumonia.
"We have received lots of cases of diarrhoea and pneumonia and some cases of fractures caused by the floods," said Dr. Abdul Qadir at Turbat Government Hospital.
"The number of patients coming in has gone up by three or four times since before the floods in this hospital," added Qadir.
Children were particularly vulnerable with most being forced to sleep in the open in makeshift camps and with little or no clean water available to drink.
Doctors said they need more medicines to be delivered urgently to cope with the growing tide of patients.
A key highway that stretches along the Arabian Sea, connecting Karachi, the main seaport and biggest city, with several other coastal towns, was damaged in many places.
A large-scale relief operation, hampered at times by broken roads, continued on Sunday as military helicopters and cargo planes flew marooned survivors to safety and distributed food, water and medicines, officials said.
The military said on Sunday that relief goods distributed by helicopter and C-130 planes included bags of rice, tents, mattresses, bottled water, medicines and water tanks.
Another senior relief official, said more tents were needed to provide shelter to the more than one (m) million people that have been left homeless by flooding in 15 badly hit districts.
Floods last week also killed more than two dozen people in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region.
On June 23, storms left 228 people dead in Karachi, the capital of neighbouring Sindh province.
The state-run Pakistan Meteorological Department on Sunday forecast "widespread heavy rains" and storms in Sindh and Baluchistan over the next four days.

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