GOLCUK, Turkey (Reuters) - Relief teams distributed food and set up tents for Turkish earthquake survivors on Monday as signs of life grew fewer under the thousands of wrecked buildings. As the confirmed death toll edged up to 12,148 six days after the quake, exhausted rescue teams dug on. The onset of rain overnight made life more miserable for them and the 200,000 people left homeless in Turkey‘s densely populated northwest by the country‘s worst tremor in 60 years. Defying the odds, the Israeli army said in a statement from Jerusalem that one of its rescue teams had pulled a three-year-old boy alive from rubble in the town of Cinarcik early on Monday. He was rushed to hospital. An Israeli team had also rescued a woman from the ruins of an apartment block in Cinarcik overnight, 138 hours after the quake. A military helicopter flew the woman, Melahat Sarsan, to an Istanbul hospital, Anatolian news agency said. In the devastated coastal town of Golcuk, trucks carried away twisted metal, broken furniture and masonry from collapsed apartment blocks. The clothes of victims were piled up on street corners after being pulled out of the rubble. A military commander said troops were focusing on setting up tent cities with proper sanitation to guard against disease. Tonnes of lime were scattered over wrecked buildings and around tents in Golcuk, close to the quake‘s epicentre. Soldiers distributed hot food and tent medical centres gave first aid. Many locals left to stay with relatives elsewhere, or in tent cities in the surrounding countryside. Kivrikoglu said his forces were setting up 500 tents a day with the aim of providing 5,000 in all in encampments equipped with toilets, water, electricity and health services. The United Nations has said the final death toll could reach about 40,000 once all the bodies under the rubble are recovered. But the official death toll has changed little since Saturday. Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit summoned his cabinet to discuss ways of dealing with the quake‘s aftermath at a four-hour meeting on Sunday evening. The military-dominated National Security Council met early on Monday, while parliament was to convene at 1200 GMT. The assembly is expected to debate relief efforts, for which the government has been attacked as ill-prepared and slow. Newspapers called for the resignation of Health Minister Osman Durmus, who was quoted as saying all the disaster region‘s health needs had been met and there was no need for foreign medical teams. State Minister Toskay played down fears of infectious disease emerging in the stricken region, where survivors were coping without running water, toilets or electricity. A foul stench hung over the cities in the northwest — some of which are almost totally destroyed. But Erik Noji of the World Health Organisation played down the chances of an epidemic and said truckloads of fresh water had been sent to the seven provinces declared disaster zones. Security measures were also stepped up, although there have been few reports of looting since the quake.