The army can sort this out: Gen DS Hooda on India’s horrible oxygen crisis

The army can sort this out: Gen DS Hooda on India’s horrible oxygen crisis

4 May 2021

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It does not need to be like this.

Panic. Suffering. Hospitals out of oxygen. Unforgivable loss of life. Chaos more lethal than Covid. Missing government.

Calm. Clear. Experienced. GENERAL DS HOODA — former chief of Northern Command — spells out solutions for India’s terrible oxygen crisis. And how the army can help sort out India’s escalating national emergency.

“We have the expertise,” he says. “Yet, on a scale of 100, the army is only being used at 10.”

Why are we suffering such preventable tragedy?