It remains to complete the recovery of extraction activity and radiotherapy
The Hospital Clínic will recover this Thursday, 100% of the scheduled surgeries and the external consultations will reach 50% activity, while the system recovery tasks continue after the cyberattack last Sunday.
The Mossos d’Esquadra and the Cybersecurity Agency of Catalonia continue the investigations into this ‘ransomware’ type cyberattack, for which hackers usually they ask for a ransom payment of the encrypted information but that the Generalitat has assured that it will not carry out. The research points to essay theft del Clínic, a leading center in research on cancer and autoimmune diseases, as sources familiar with the case have explained to EL PERIÓDICO.
According to the latest update from the Clínic, this Thursday the activity of external consultations will gradually increase to 50%, both in the hospital and in the CAPs that it co-manages: Borrell, Casanova and Les Corts. As for scheduled surgeries, they will reach 100% at the Villarroel headquarters, the main building of the Clínic. At the Platón and Maternidad offices, low-complexity dermatological, urological and ophthalmological outpatient surgery will be performed.
Pending extractions and radiotherapy
It remains to complete the recovery of the extraction activity, which currently operates at 20% of its capacity, carrying out urgent tests and for day hospitals. Radiotherapy has not recovered either, but priority oncology patients are being referred to the hospitals of Sant Pau and Vall d’Hebron.
Urgent activity and hospitalization at the center or at home, the day hospital service, radiological examinations and endoscopic tests, dialysis, outpatient rehabilitation and the pharmacy continue to function normally.
To avoid a second attack
The Cybersecurity Agency and the Clinic continue the tasks of analysis and systems recovery of the information to normalize the situation. Since March 5, a recovery plan to minimize the chances that an incident of the same characteristics will be reproduced again under the same circumstances in the hospital.
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This plan includes actions to eradicate the attacker’s activity, the deployment of different technological capabilities and the operational integration of the health center with the Cybersecurity Agency and its protection capabilities.
With the support of 165 teams, the recovery tasks are currently focused on re-availing the basic support elements of the infrastructure and the elements that support the hospital’s most critical processes, some work that could be completed “in the coming days “, has assured the Clinic.