"India's AIIMS Hit by Outages After Cyberattack"

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), India's leading public medical institute, is experiencing outages due to a cyberattack. Hundreds of patients and doctors are affected by the outages, which include patient admission, discharge, and billing systems. Thousands of medical undergraduate and postgraduate students attend AIIMS. With over 2,200 beds, it is also one of the largest state-owned hospitals. According to hospital officials, the cyberattack appears to be a ransomware attack because the attackers changed the extensions of infected files. According to AIIMS officials, patient care services have been severely impacted. The medical institute switched to manual operations, including handwriting patient notes, after the server that recorded patient data became inoperable. Long lines and errors in handling emergency cases have resulted from the outages. After a few hours of disruption, hospital officials issued a statement confirming the cyberattack. They are unable to send blood tests, request imaging studies, or view previous reports or images. Many such operations are performed manually, which takes more time and is more prone to errors, according to a resident doctor. The hospital administration later directed doctors to continue using handwritten notes, including signing birth and death certificates by hand, while the systems were inoperable. A National Informatics Centre team is collaborating with the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team to assist in the organization's recovery. According to a person with direct knowledge of the incident, an effort is underway to restore the data from backups. In addition, several law enforcement agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Delhi Police Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations, are investigating the incident and the perpetrators. This article continues to discuss the impact and investigation of the AIIMS cyberattack. 

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