Hafta 325: Indiaâs Covid crisis
The podcast where we discuss the news of the week.
This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Manisha Pande are joined by Arunabh Saikia of
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Arunabh elaborates upon his recent
report on India s oxygen crisis and what caused it. The Narendra Modi government, he explains, planned to set up 150 oxygen generation over eight months ago but only a few of them are up and running. They only take four to six weeks to set up and we couldn t even do that, it talks a lot about our response,â he says.
Talking about the oxygen shortage in hospitals, Raman notes, Adding up industrial and state plants we do have enough O2 but there was no plan of distribution in times of crisis.â