CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently traveled to Pakistan to report on the situation after its devastating earthquake earlier this year. He reports tonight on Anderson Cooper 360 on the relief efforts and profiles a U.S. Army MASH unit in the region. Below is a transcript of last night’s report…

COLLINS: Can we already have forgotten a calamity in which perhaps 90,000 people perished and hundreds of thousands were left homeless? The people of northwestern Pakistan have been asking: What has happened to the world’s attention in the two months since the earth gave way under them?

And they’ve also been asking why CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta had not come back to see what their lives were like now with winter coming. And so, Dr. Gupta did go back.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): We had heard the numbers over and over, more than 80,000 dead and more dying every day. But it was numbers and just numbers. And it wasn’t until I walked right into the middle of a funeral procession that it started to really sink in. It happened just moments after we arrived at the small village in Marathinolia (ph), in northeastern Pakistan.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you very much.

GUPTA: The men of the village here, a small village in the foothills of the Himalayas, have all gathered for a scene that has replayed itself too many times over the past couple of months. Just behind me, the Latha-clothed (ph) body of a person who has recently died as a result of the earthquake here in Pakistan. A prayer will take place and then the body will be buried.

The communities here have always been tight-knit for sure. Nearly every man taking part in this ceremony. They face Mecca, bring their hands together and pray. But the strongest earthquake to strike Pakistan in more than 70 years has bound them closer than ever before. We learned quickly, and perhaps it was obvious, even if they lived, no one here escaped this earthquake.

(on-screen): I want to give you a little bit of a sense what happened here. If you take a look at this mountain, you can see an entire chunk of the mountain actually just fell straight down. What you’re looking at that, all that rubble underneath there, beneath all that, was an entire village. As you might imagine, and as was the case here, nobody in this village survived.

(Voice-over): The stories came quickly, the villagers anxious to share. Some told us what happened to that man in the funeral procession, what happened here.

(on-screen): The house that you’re looking at was actually a house that was completely devastated by the earthquake. A man and two women lived in there, one his wife, one his child. The two women both died. The man was able to survive for a couple of months, but also passed away today.

(voice-over): These are the most dramatic images I have seen. And while you can never measure just how bad a natural disaster is, I’ve seen far too many this year, including the tsunami in South Asia and Katrina in New Orleans.

(on-screen): Malik Noranson (ph) has lived right here. His entire family now lives with him. On the morning of October 8th, you could actually see what happened, all the devastation. A crack appeared. The entire earth started moving. And parts of his home just completely washed away, wiped away by the earthquake, fallen down the hill.

This is what happened on that day. This is what happened as a result of this earthquake. Take a look in here.

(voice-over): Malik Noranson (ph) will try to brave the winter here in his own home, reluctant to ever leave his property. You see, there are no land deeds in many parts of Pakistan. He is worried he will never get his land back.

But many others didn’t have that as an option. Their homes beyond ruined, they all have a new, and they hope temporary, way of life.

(on-screen): One of the things I was so struck by was just how massive this place is. Those are the Himalayan mountains all behind me. And we are in the foothills of those mountains.

This is one of the many villages of tents that sprung up immediately after the earthquake. There’s about 6,000 people living here in about a thousand tents. That’s six people per tent. That’s actually considered pretty good.

I want to point out a couple of things, though, that are concerning. One is, these tents are not winterized. They will not protect against the rain. They will not protect against the immense cold, and it is colder here now, much more colder at night, below freezing for sure. The ground is hard. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to dig, to even pound these stakes into the ground. Still, the U.N. informs these people they’ll be living here for about six months.

At this altitude even, I’m becoming a little bit short of breath. Still, the people so concerned they are about aftershocks and more debris coming down from the mountains, they want to live as high as possible, so people are continuing to move up the hill.

(voice-over): Gulfaraz Khan (ph) used to live way up in the mountains. A herder of livestock, his home now gone. He looks older and has experienced far more than his 22 years of life would have you believe.

He has put together two tents for his family. He tells me this one sleeps six and has absolutely no heat. It is quite cold in there. Also, this is all the food for his entire family, a half a pot of rice, a quarter bag of flour, and a small handful of sprouts.

Even though he’s optimistic, I couldn’t help but wonder: Which would be more difficult for him to overcome, the cold or the starvation?

(on-screen): They live a little prayer to the dirt. And they throw the dirt onto the grave site.

(voice-over): These are all the stories, tales of so much death and the struggle to survive. At nearly 3,000 feet above sea level and 30 degree temperatures, as winter comes, roaring so far away from help.

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COLLINS: Sanjay, what stood out to you the most, though, on this trip as you went back to Pakistan?

GUPTA: Yes, Heidi, I mean, there were so many images, so many things that stuck out. I mean, the rubble, just everywhere. We’re talking about some very remote areas of Pakistan, for sure.

But there was just rubble everywhere. And there’s tents outside the homes that even some of the homes that are still standing. You’ve got to remember one thing: There have been over 2,000 aftershocks since the earthquake, and that has just left everyone feeling both psychologically and physically unsettled.

The emotional toll is just dramatic. Also, just how hard it was to get to some of these places. People talked about the landslides and how remote some of these areas were. You just couldn’t get to some of these places because of the landslides. We had to take helicopters to a lot of places still. And this is a couple of months now, after the earthquake, Heidi.

COLLINS: What do you have coming up for us tomorrow?

GUPTA: Well, you know, the question we want answered is, how do you take care of these people? Who’s going to take care of them? How’s the relief organization, how’s it all going to work?

Actually, there’s a MASH unit very close to some of the areas you just saw. It is the last MASH unit in existence in the U.S. Army. We visited. We saw how it’s working, in terms of taking care of all these people, Heidi.

COLLINS: Wow. Well, thank god for them, that’s for sure.

GUPTA: Thank you.