Regular IT outages impacting patient care, surveys find, but minister dismisses it as political
Health NZ facilities averaged more than one priority one outage a day in one survey, but the health minister says the timing is a coincidence.
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Health NZ facilities averaged more than one priority one outage a day in one survey, but the health minister says the timing is a coincidence.
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In its account of what happened, ICA said a build-up of Singapore-bound traffic occurred amid planned electrical maintenance works, while two vehicle breakdowns on the Malaysian side of the Causeway subsequently contributed to traffic tailing back into Malaysia.
The senior minister of state for health apologised for the Oct 13 disruption, saying it "should not have happened". The outage forced about 4,000 outpatient appointments to be rescheduled.
Paymark was still receiving reports of Spark-connected Eftpos issues.
Services are slowly coming back online at Perth Airport after a mass power outage, sparked by a bushfire, impacted every terminal.
<p>Sudan’s warring sides have traded drone strikes that killed 21 people in the western <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/1759717">Darfur region</a> and left vast swathes of the country’s east without electricity, medics and witnesses said Tuesday.</p> <p>A drone strike on a market in Nyala, the de facto capital of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
Some are leaving the Ukrainian capital as Russia intensifies its campaign targeting the country’s energy infrastructure.
Power and water outages in Johannesburg pose serious health risks for medically vulnerable residents who depend on powered equipment, reliable hygiene and caregiving support.
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