Reader letter: Full inquiry needed into hospital cyberattack

Published Nov 19, 2023 • Last updated 20 hours ago • 1 minute read

Photo illustration of a cyberattack. Photo by NicoElNino /Getty Images

Unless you are living it, you don’t know how upsetting the cyberattack at Windsor’s hospitals is for patients and families who have cancer and any other patients who need life-saving operations.

My family is going through this with my sister-in-law who was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer on Sept. 30.

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There should be a full inquiry into this computer system failure. And why was there no off-site back-up performed daily of patients’ records and employees’ personal information etc.?

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Those in top management at these hospitals who were not doing their jobs should lose their jobs.

Our family appreciates the staff and doctors at the Cancer Clinic who are trying to do their jobs under these circumstances.

Any family that has lost a loved one since the cyberattack has my deepest condolences.

When the hospital holds an inquiry on the cyberattack my family will be available to attend and speak in detail about how this has affected my sister-in-law and all the other members of her family.

Margaret McLean
Kingsville

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