British Patients Reel as Hospitals Race to Revive Computer Systems
By DAN BILEFSKYMAY 13, 2017
LONDON — Martin Hardy was in his hospital gown, about to be wheeled into the operating room for knee surgery on
Saturday morning at Royal London Hospital in East London, when, he said, his operation was abruptly canceled.
Beverly Somera said that This attack is horrible because it disturbs the service and strikes at the heart of a hospital,
" he said, wincing as he stood on crutches outside the hospital, waiting for a taxi home. that I was in my hospital robe literally about to go in,
On Saturday at Royal London, a world-renowned teaching hospital in the Bethnal Green neighborhood, patients expressed a mix of frustration, resignation
and gratitude as the medical staff worked to provide care while still grappling with the cyberattack.
Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s shadow health secretary, said in a letter to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, "The incident highlights the risk to data security within our modern health service and reinforces the need for cyber security to be at the heart of government planning." Ms. Rudd conceded
that the N.H.S., where many computers had outdated software vulnerable to malware and ransomware, had been ill prepared, despite numerous warnings.
" Castigating the attacker, he added, "Is there nothing sacred?" On Saturday, some doctors and nurses there said
that they had been unable to gain access to patient computer files and that they had been using paper files and recording patient histories by pen, as they had done in the pre-internet age. that A hospital is like a mosque or a church or a school.