AIIMS Delhi back to normalcy after a cyberattack cripple its operations for nearly two weeks. Online registration of patients resume after the hospital was able to access its server and recover lost data.
The hospital work with federal authorities to restore the system and strengthen its defences.
It’s unclear who conduct the 23rd November 2022 attack on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences or where it originate.
The attack was follow by a series of fail attempts to hack the country’s top medical research organisation, the Indian Council of Medical Research.
Which raise further concerns about the vulnerability of the country’s health system to attacks at a time when the government is pushing hospitals to digitise their records.
More than 173,000 hospitals have register with a federal program to digitise health records since its launch in September 2021.
The program assigns patients numbers that are link to medical information store by hospitals on their own servers or in cloud-based storage.
Experts fear that hospitals may not have the expertise to ensure digital security.
That is what happen to the hospital in New Delhi.
Healthcare workers couldn’t access patient reports because the servers that store laboratory data and patient records had been hack and corrupt.
The hospital normally treats thousands of people a day, many of whom travel from distant places to access affordable care.
Always crowded, queues at the hospital grew even longer and more chaotic.
On 30th November 2022, there were repeat but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to breach the website of the Indian Council of Medical Research, as per report.
The government draft a propose law governing data privacy last month, but critics say it offers few safeguards to people.
It has not yet pass by Parliament.
