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Pandemic has created ‘cancer timebomb’
Leading oncologist warns of ‘enormous implications’ for time-dependent care
Delays to cancer diagnosis and treatment caused by the #Covid-19 crisis could increase #cancer mortality rates for the next decade, a leading oncologist has warned.
Citing recent statistics from the National Cancer Institute,
Prof. Seamus O’Reilly, of Cork University Hospital and the Mercy University Hospital, said that as a result of the pandemic, patients were wary about coming into hospital.
“Services had to be curtailed due to social distancing and redeployment of staff,” said Prof O’Reilly.
“Our health service still has not returned to normal. This has enormous implications, and our concern as oncologists is of delayed cancer diagnosis occurring as a result.”
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Irish health service hit by very sophisticated ransomware attack
05/14/2021 | 04:57am EDT
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DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland s health service operator shut down all its IT systems on Friday to protect it from a significant ransomware attack, crippling diagnostic services and forcing hospitals to cancel many appointments.
The country s COVID-19 vaccination programme was not disrupted, but the attack was affecting IT systems serving all other local and national health provision, the head of the Health Service Executive (HSE) said.
The HSE shut down the IT systems as a precaution to protect as much information as possible and was assessing how the attack would affect other services, Chief Executive Paul Reid said.
HSE chief executive Paul Reid said officials were working with the Garda, the Defence Forces and third party cyber security experts to respond to the attack.
An Garda SÃochána said the HSE was the lead agency in dealing with the attack but it was liasing with the health body and the National Cyber Security Centre.
Minister of State for Communications Ossian Smyth TD told RTÃ radioâs News at One that he had been briefed by the National Cyber Security Centre on the attack but for operational reasons could not share everything he knew.
He said it appeared to have been an attempt to lock the HSE out of its own systems in order to steal data and then try to extract a ransom.