‘Addl staff deployed to run diagnostics, labs and OPD’

New Delhi: All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi authorities on Saturday said that they have deployed additional staff to run diagnostics, labs and OPD services at the national medical institute as its servers remained suspended for the fourth consecutive day due to a suspected ransomware attack.

The institute's medical superintendent, Dr DK Sharma said that they have redeployed more staff to handle OPD and Diagnostics services due to increased manual work. "We have deployed additional staff so that more people are available in OPD and diagnostic laboratories," said Sharma, while speaking to ANI.

He further said that since the day server is down more patients have been seen in comparison to digital records. "Patients want that doctors should see them timely, and we are managing records manually the way we used to do earlier. In the last three days, we have attended almost 12,000 patients on a daily basis - which is even more than earlier since the patients are not required to take an appointment."

"We opened our registers again and kept their serial no wise. We can see the sample reports on the computer, earlier we used to send those reports with the help of e-Hospital to different areas. Now we are taking those reports and dispatching them directly," the medical superintendent explained.

The internet services at the institute are likely to remain suspended on the recommendations from the investigation agencies. (ANI)