NEW DELHI: India’s premiere health care institute —All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi reported a massive cyber attack on its server on Wednesday. All patient care services from appointments to registration and admission to discharge, billing, and report generation, were badly hit since 7 am.
This cyber attack, which is suspected to be a “ransomware”, where the hackers demand money to restore service, comes close on the heels of AIIMS announcing paperless from January 1, 2023 and complete digitalisation of all hospital services from April, 2023.
