More to miss surgery as IT system rebuilt
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More people will miss out on elective surgery this week at Waikato Hospital as the DHB struggles with no computer system because of last week's massive ransomware cyber attack.
The DHB is likely to manage 80 per cent of the scheduled elective surgeries, and who was seen depended on how much laboratory and radiology services are required for their surgery, it says.
Last week, it carried out 299 elective surgeries and cancelled 60, and it expects similar figures this week.
The same applies to outpatient clinics and it expects 20 per cent of them will be cancelled.