Pneumonia hits Pak quake zone

With many survivors in the highlands without food, shelter or medical treatment four weeks after the devastating Oct. 8 quake, underfunded relief workers speak anxiously of a "second disaster in the making".

"Many, many people will die and many will be children as they are most vulnerable," said Dagmar Chocholaclova, a Czech doctor in Ratnoi, a village near the town of Bagh in Pakistani Kashmir.

With night temperatures already below freezing and rain and snow forecast this week, her clinic has treated hundreds of cases of pneumonia and other acute respiratory infections like bronchitis.

She estimated the clinic was treating only about one percent of patients from 28 settlements around Ratnoi as most people could not make the trek of many hours to reach it.