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 Scroll. 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
Reporters Without Orders Ep 164: Covid crisis in UP and MP A reportersâ podcast about what made news and what shouldnât have. Newslaundryâs Prateek Goyal and independent journalist Saurabh Sharma. Saurabh talks about his recent reports on Uttar Pradeshâs pandemic situation. In the capital Lucknow, he says, thereâs utter helplessness and the main reason is the unpreparedness of the Adityanath government. All of them were busy with elections, nobody paid much attention to Covid, it was as if it was gone,â he laments. Itâs a similar situation in Madhya Pradesh, says Prateek, where âthe healthcare system has completely collapsedâ. Yet, in both the Hindi heartland states, Saurabh and Prateek point out, the governments are fudging the data.