He Hospital Clinic of Barcelona continues to be affected by the “sophisticated” cyber attack suffered on Sunday and that took him, on Monday, to descheduling outpatient consultations, non-urgent surgeries and extractions already derive stroke and heart attack codes to other centers. The health center is gradually resuming activity and plans, for this Wednesday, to recover up to 25% of outpatient consultations and up to 70% of surgeries. However, can’t recover even the activity at the extraction center or radiotherapy oncology.
Even so, the toilets continue working manually because the hospital cannot access your computer system nor to his HDD. For this last reason, the Clínic claims to be unaware, for the moment, of the scope of this cyberattack perpetrated by the cybercrime company Ransom House. In the hospital there “worry” and It is possible that the total recovery will take months to take place. The Web from the hospital continues drop.
According to a statement sent late in the afternoon by the Government, the Clínic has recovered this tuesday the outpatient rehabilitation thanks to the deployment of 125 support teams. The center maintains the urgent activity and the conventional and critical hospitalization at the three centers (Villarroel, Plató and Maternitat), including neonatology and obstetrics, the home hospitalization and the day hospitals, the radiological scans and the endoscopic tests, the dialysis and the outpatient pharmacy.
will be pending recover activity at the center of extractions and the aradiotherapeutic activity: For now, these last patients will continue to be referred to the Hospital de Sant Pau.
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In addition, those who can visit each other will receive a hospital call to confirm your visit and, on the other hand, will progressively notify the rescheduled.
The data recovery environments that were encrypted by the attackers makes it difficult to retrieve information however, the deployed teams are identifying the Backups without traces of the attack to restore the information necessary for the operation of the center.