2023-08-08 21:52:00
Six days have passed since hack to the computer systems AMONGwhich alerted hundreds of thousands of retirees and retirees from all over the country, who are having problems carrying out virtual procedures on the social work page. However, from the organization they sought to bring peace of mind by maintaining that the situation “Medications and benefits are safe.”
Last Wednesday the agency reported that the computer systems had suffered a cyberattack that temporarily affected the service. Already that same day they warned that the situation had been mitigated, although a contingency plan consisting of the suspension of the affected platforms.
However, this Tuesday, PAMI sources told PERFIL that “server information is protected” and that a series of decisions were made with the aim of restoring payments, medicines and benefits. Along these lines, they insisted that “all prescriptions and medical orders will be made on prescription paper issued by general practitioners and health professionals”.
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In addition, they indicated that medical consultations, practices and referrals will be made on paper “through our family doctors and medical professionals.” In both cases, they indicated, it is the The same mechanism used regularly by prepaid and obras sociales.
From the organization they seek to underline that beyond the logical complications of the cyber attack, up to now the monitoring of the dispensing of medicines in the pharmacy network indicates that “Medication consumption remains at usual volumes.”
cancer treatments
One of the main concerns of affiliates has to do with the impact on the hack regarding procedures related to treatment in general, but cancer in particular.
In this sense, from PAMI they responded to this medium that “the automatic renewal of all oncological treatments was determined”, whether outpatient or special, that have expired as of August 2. “This includes diabetes treatments and nutritional supplements,” they noted.
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On the other hand, they also searched Bring peace of mind regarding the payment schedule. They said that it is guaranteed for the next few weeks both in workers’ salaries and medicines and benefits.
What happened at PAMI
Last week, PAMI announced that its systems had been hacked by a virus whose function is to encrypt information. It would be a “Rhynsida”, that is, a ransomware that is a type of malicious code that prevents the use of the equipment or systems that it infects.
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“This not only makes problems of what already has difficulties, which is patient care, but also there are treatments that cannot be started,” he lamented in recent hours. Eugene Seminodefender of the Third Age, in statements to reprofile. “There are many treatments that need new therapies that, above all, in terms of patients in the interior, central Pami has to approve and the protocols do not arrive,” she said.
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