More fear than harm. On Wednesday, an electrical failure affected the hospital in Amiens, in the Somme, management announced. The technical problem, declared in the morning, was “resolved” around 3 p.m.
If the teams have “done their best to limit the consequences”, “certain scheduled care could not be carried out in the morning” and will be “soon reorganized”. “The reception and the care of emergencies” remained “assured”, testifies the CHU, in its press release.
“This failure is not a cyberattack but a technical failure, further specified the management. A fault occurred in the computer racks at the heart of the CHU Amiens-Picardie network. Thanks to the technical teams, the causes were identified as quickly as possible and the incidents resolved. »