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Two patients who were given general anesthesia before surgery for a Melbourne hospital woke up to hear they had never been operated on after operations were canceled due to an IT outage.
St Vincent’s Hospital was forced to cancel some scheduled operations on Tuesday after a “network outage” it said affected its IT and telephone system.
WATCH VIDEO ABOVE: One of Melbourne’s biggest hospitals suffers network outage, operations affected.
In an email to the hospital’s chief executive, Nicole Tweddle, said the outage was not due to a cyber attack, but rather to a planned network upgrade on Saturday.
“Out of an abundance of caution, we made the decision earlier today to cancel some elective clinical activities while our clinical systems are unstable,” Tweddle said.
“We also worked with Ambulance Victoria to closely manage the emergency search. We will continue to monitor this and update regularly via the incident command centre.”
7NEWS has confirmed that two patients on Tuesday were prepped for surgery and put under anesthesia only to wake up a short time later to be told their scheduled surgery did not go ahead.
The hospital says that while most systems are back up and running, the problem persists.
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