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THE COUNTRY’S CHILDREN’S hospitals have asked patients not to attend appointments unless they have received contact from the facilities.
The hospitals have said that the move has been made to enable technicians deal with the cyber-attack and a large volume of inpatients.
Dr Eilish Hardiman, CEO of Children’s Hospital Ireland which includes Temple Street and Crumlin hospitals, said that 80% of the group’s computer system was infected by the ransomware which struck 20 days ago.
Hardiman, speaking on RTE’s Morning Ireland, said that outpatient public and private clinics are cancelled at Temple Street, Crumlin and Tallaght hospitals.
“We’re into day 20 of this incident from the criminal cyber-attack, the impact has been varied across the healthcare system, and also our ability to recover.
“So Children’s Health Ireland, and the Children’s hospitals particularly Crumlin and Temple Street, have been more severely impacted than others and we are seeking the public support and helping us to deal with the next week.
“Within Children’s Health Ireland we would have had about 230 IT systems and about 2,500 PCs and almost 80% of this infrastructure was infected by this attack.
“Some of them are 100% in practice, so that means that now we are in the process of having to assess repair, restore and replace, and we’re 50% through that particular effort of work.
“We have very old IT infrastructure, particularly in Crumlin and Temple Street, so even when we get one part of our IT infrastructure up it impacts on an other part that was up and it goes down so this is very laborious work,” she said.
Hardiman said that Defence Forces experts were in the hospitals assisting with the to restore the computer systems.
She said along with the cyber attack the hospitals were also close to capacity at between 90% and 95% capacity.
To deal with the cyber attack and the level of patient attendances Hardiman said that they had put in place a system to deal with the problem.
“The hospitals will contact you if you’re scheduled to come in and that’s because it’s deemed by the clinicians that you need to attend either there or some of our national services or they are time critical.
“We would ask the public to actually attend if they’re contacted and we’re sorry that some people will have to be canceled and we know that the waiting lists but we will try and get those back up as soon as when we’re back up.
“Only those who are contacted should come in,” she added.
Hardiman said that it is hoped that outpatient administration should be effective from the end of next week and cancelled appointments will then be rescheduled.
A HSE source told The Journal that a number of departments, which were worst hit, have seen some systems come back online.
These include emails and other files which were locked. Administration personnel were continuing to use pen and paper while old paper based files were also being sourced.
95,000 individual computers and laptops were being worked through by IT specialists across the HSE – their systems were being wiped and then reinstalled.
A garda source said that interactions between Tusla and the force were also being conducted using paper forms as email referrals were not working as yet.
Meanwhile, the Irish Cancer Society is due before the Oireachtas Health Committee where it is expected to say that the HSE cyberattack has been worse for some cancer services than the pandemic.
The presentation, as reported in the Irish Examiner, will be given by Averil Power, ICS CEO, and is expected to reveal that rapid-access clinics are particularly effect.
Speaking at the same committee this morning, Dr Clive Kilgallon of the Irish Medical Organisation, explained the impact of the pandemic on cancer services.
“In March and April 2020, during the first wave, rapid access clinics for breast and lung cancer saw referrals fall by a third and referrals for prostate cancer fall by half. While referrals have recovered, they remain significantly below 2019 levels particularly for lung and prostate cancer.
“Many patients also experienced delays in accessing services. In September 2020 just 60% of new patients attending Rapid Access Breast, Lung and Prostate Clinics were seen within the recommended timeframe.
“More recent figures show that for the first three months this year 450 people per month were not seen within the recommended 4 weeks for an urgent colonoscopy rose – compared to 15 per month pre-covid,” he said.
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My mate’s a doctor in the south east. On more than one occasion he has dealt with men from Afghanistan and Pakistan and their multiple wives. One Afghani has been in 3 times in the past year with a different woman pregnant as his wife.
The third girl the guy claimed was 18 but my mate wasnt so sure. So he called the HSE, Gardai and other services and no one wanted to assist.
It’s happening here and is being brushed under the carpet. Polygamy is illegal in this country and our immigrant population need to be informed of this, and prosecuted to the fullest extent if they break the law.
Another example of muslim asylum seekers and migrants cultures trumping irish state law.
What are statistics of Pakistani/Afghan men acknowledging illegitimate children (unheard of in their culture) – then claiming right to stay!
Yes but we don’t want to appear racist – so let’s just leave it there.
Yes Good Early and do you know what else – Irish taxpayers are probably paying for the upkeep of him, his three wives and all his children! Wouldn’t it just give you the warm fuzzies!
I was thinking the same. They’re all in his medical card. I wonder if he can claim all of these wives as dependants with the Social.
I wanted to highlight it here as this sh*t is going on in Ireland. Not very PC to highlighted in this country while condemning it another
You can put your house on it that nobody will do anything about this medieval carry on , where are all the bleeding hearts who love an ‘issue ‘ to fill their empty days or even a feminist will do to ‘raise concerns ‘ about the treatment of women by these yokes , the only thing we are sure about is that what we see across the water has arrived here and in a generation we will have our own Rotherham
Good early…its like child abuse and destruction of whistleblowers….the powers that be dont like the boat being rocked…
Mike…RT today forced nordic state govt spokespersons to admit they are permitting child marriages exist/take place in reception centres for muslim/african asylum seekers…does/will that be embraced here amongst the “new irish”? Or is it already?
Let’s call this what it is- Paedophilia!
Good Early, You should tell your friend to go to a newspaper and give his story anonymously if needs be! It’s a disgrace and should be exposed.
Original….you and i agree…the multiculturalists among us would say its criminal and sick if you or i did it….but would say that for an african its cultural,thus acceptable.I look forward to the 1st such case exposed here.
All the bigots here on their high horses, the girl in the articles name is Maria. I wonder what religion she is from? And while this practice is despicable it is not limited to one ethnic group or religion. In Ireland not so long ago it was common practice to marry off teenage girls to old men (the quiet man is a a parody of this but it goes easy on the actual age difference).or else to put them on the emigrant boat. Such behaviour is commonly the result of extreme poverty and ignorance Anything for a rant a Johnny foreigner but just remember it i is only recent economic development with its attendant opportunties which have permitted your younger sister to avoid marrying 52 year Joe Mulvay with his 3 acres.
Her name is given as “Maria”, note inverted commas, so real name most likely isn’t.
Matty Matty Matty, I think you’ll find that “the traditional practice of ‘bog-lenga’ or ‘bonus woman’” is NOT a Christian practice – its one of their own African cultural practices. Also, it’s actually quite a considerably amount of time since teenage girls were married off to old men in Ireland. It’s like this Matty – you’re either against these practices or you’re not.
Matty..scroll down..note that i exculpated these folk already on the grounds of poverty and lack of education…and further noted that Colm o Gorman is attendant on the case….thus as a social justice campaigner i have already intervened.
Matty is a Gary Glitter fan! But he can’t bring the race card into the conversation if Garry the freak gets a good kicking
That’s just fooooooked up shit right there. Poor children don’t stand a chance in life
Just noticed colm o gorman is on the case….he knows education and lots of money will make burkina faso better…
Criminal.
Also can we have more reports on the jump in child marriage in Europe and what its causes are please?
Maybe an opinion piece from one of our college lecturers on how “culturally enriching” this kind of thing is?
Its their culture..we must celebrate it…though they would be tough neighbours to get to know.id love to eavesdrop on a cultural relativist workshop as they work out how to sell the benefits of these practices to a host nation…
As yes, more Islam enriching our world, third article today by my count… doesn’t it make you feel warm and fuzzy!
her name is Maria
No, her name is “Maria”. So her real name most likely isn’t.
Yes, and taking more than one wife is forbidden in Christianity.
So which do you think is more plausible? That the man having five wives is a spoof, or that they named to girl Maria and never mentioned Islam so people like you wouldn’t have to get that sickly feeling in your belly between the truth and not wanting to appear racist haha!
Ps I think it’s a set up to spare your feelings ;)
Plenty of Christian organisations practicing polygamy in the US and elsewhere.
Plenty, really? Name 5 if you could.
It doesn’t really matter if you can name them or not, not one recognized Christian Church practices polygamy, not one Catholic, Protestant, Assyrian, Coptic, Orthodox or otherwise; in conjunction polygamy is not legal in “christian” countries either.
So to compare that to Islam, where polygamy is scripturally permissible, accepted by each of the four Islamic schools of jurisprudence and is legal under CIVIL law in many Islamic countries, is a comparison so weak as to really make me doubt your knowledge on the subject.
Sad I suppose…but what the hell has it to do with us?
It’s Africa’s problem.
One more in a long list.
You are all Hart cal.
Also a uk , Swedish problem . Etc . Actually now it’s a European prob
Cal, You’re right – it is “Africa’s problem” and it is “one more in a long list” but it is still actually very sad and twisted – and it shouldn’t happen anywhere in the world!
I would have chosen a different organ to describe Cal.
Cal has no idea of history
Cerebral?
The Muslims have made it clear they will take over Europe because they can have as many wife’s and children as they want that is why I would be very slow in giving anyone of them citizenship .
Let the savages do what they want in their own countries but don’t be bringing it here. King George was right; abroad is bloody
That’s what Jesus would have said Cal
Pedos?
Which god do they worship again? The pedophile one?
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