NEW DELHI: Both MCD and NDMC are stepping up Covid arrangements at their hospitals, including setting up flu clinics, testing facilities, engaging mobile vans for testing in busy areas, and maintaining adequate stocks of essential medicines and equipment. They are also promoting booster vaccination for both hospital staff and patients.

“We have issued detailed guidelines at Charak Palika Hospital to strictly follow Covid protocols such as maintaining social distance, wearing masks. We have started mobile testing facilities as and when demands are raised by government offices, ministries and government accommodations. At the hospital, RTPCR testing has started for the public,”

Madrid: A ransomware cyberattack on one of Barcelona’ s main hospitals has crippled the centre’s computer system and forced the cancellation of 150 nonurgent operations and up to 3,000 patient checkups, officials said on Monday. The attack Sunday on the Hospital Clinic de Barcelona shut down computers at the facility’s laboratories, emergency room and pharmacy at three main centres and several external clinics.

“We can’t make any prediction as to when the system will be back up to normal,” hospital director Antoni Castells told a news conference on Monday. He said the hospital’s contingency plan would allow them to function