Four days after being the target of a computer attack, the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital, in the Paris suburbs, announced on Wednesday August 24 that it was transferring “all patients who are unstable or require acute care” and “patients at risk, who need increased monitoring”. The Sud-Francilien hospital center (CHSF) specified that “Patients in stable condition remain[rait] in [leurs] local “.
The medical biology and imaging services are functioning, the configuration of the devices having not been impacted by the cyberattack. However, they can no longer transmit the results quickly, specifies the hospital. “All exams are done manually”, explains a union representative of SUD-Santé of the CHSF, Franck Banizette. With, therefore, longer than average delays.
Patients who require regular and frequent examinations at short notice are transferred to other structures. This concerns, for example, emergency patients or infants hospitalized in intensive care and neonatal intensive care.
Consultations and deliveries guaranteed
“In the emergency room, the activity is close to zero” and “the neonatal sheave has been emptied”says the union representative. “All risky or complex interventions” are also transferred, but “minor surgery” was not interrupted.
Consultations, scheduled care in day hospitals and childbirth remain insured. “Similarly, the pharmacy has taken rapid measures which guarantee the continuity of supply of services with drugs and medical devices”, adds the hospital in a press release. Patients from the cardiology and follow-up care and rehabilitation departments were transferred internally to the cardiology intensive care unit, “preventively”.
Faced with the impossibility of giving a timetable for a return to normal, the hospital decided to equip itself with CD burners to store and transmit imaging data and instruments allowing biology examinations to be carried out directly in services, primarily in critical care.
“A server made available by the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris is currently being tested to access the establishment’s backups”says the hospital.