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Beijing suburbs, October 19, 2005 1. Sunset through the trees of suburban neighbourhood 2. Cars lined up on tree-lined street 3. Bicycle parks against house behind potted flowers 4. Wide of tree-lined neighbourhood street 5. Mr Xie Xiaodong points to future site of infectious disease hospital 6. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Xie Xiaodong, Suburban Resident: "This hospital is for infectious diseases - a hospital that specialises in contagious sickness. I don't know - I hear that sick people will come here to be treated for more than 30 kinds of infectious illnesses. My house is too close to this. My child is only four years old. So if they do build it, I might have to move. I don't believe I will be able to sell the place though." 7. Wide pan of site FILE: Beijing, 13 April 2003 8. Wide exterior, current site of Ditan Contagious Disease Hospital 9. Wide of patient's room in hospital 10. Cutaway of patient with oxygen mask 11. Cutaway of different patient with breathing mask Beijing, 19 October 2005 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Henk Bekedam, World Health Organisation Representative (Beijing): "Waste management is definitely an area where you have to be very careful. People lie around in hospitals with infectious diseases and the materials that come from the patients need to be dealt with in a very proper way. But we also know that China will be challenged also with having the Olympics here in 2008. I am very sure the Beijing authorities will make very sure that the hospitals are very well built and that people are dealing with some of these challenges." FILE: Beijing, 13 April 2003 13. Hospital staff spraying disinfectant 14. Wide shot of nurse using computer 15. Nurse wearing surgical mask 16. Nurse in sterile suit, opens glass partition to get blood sample 17. Shot through glass partition of relative with mask, pan to patient with mask 18. Wide shot of relative and patient STORYLINE: Beijing residents expressed their concern on Wednesday after city planners announced plans to move China's main infectious disease hospital to the capital's suburbs. "I hear that sick people will come here to be treated for more than 30 kinds of infectious illnesses," said Xie Xiaodong, a resident of the suburb of Beigao. He said that that if the hospital went ahead, he'd considering moving, but is not sure anyone would buy his home. He said neighbours had not been informed of the plans to relocate Ditan Hospital, and that he read about them in a local newspaper in June. Since then, residents have held meetings, organised a signature campaign and have taken their grievances to the government, but all to no avail. The new class of Chinese lawyers, financiers, entrepreneurs and business executives who live in Beigao fear their 400,000 US dollar investment properties will plummet in value if Ditan Hospital moves to the suburbs. Ditan Hospital became well know for treating patients during the 2003 outbreak of the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. Neighbours fear the hospital could again be in the spotlight if there is another outbreak of SARS or a bird flu epidemic. Henk Bekedam of the World Health Organisation said the hospital would have to be careful about how it disposed of waste. "Waste management is definitely an area where you have to be very careful. People lie around in hospitals with infectious diseases and the materials that come from the patients need to be dealt with in a very proper way," he said. Residents have hired a lawyer and persuaded business contacts to deliver letters of protest to Beijing's Mayor. But despite this, the Beijing Health Bureau says it has full public approval for the 600-bed, 55 (m) million US dollar facility after carefully weighing the public safety issues. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ae8d11b2ee98e7ac306321895b67f35d Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork