When Nicko Silar was born on July 16, 2019, she had the umbilical cord around her neck.
As a result, the girl suffered a brain injury and died nine months later.
Her mother, Teiranni Kidd, is now suing Springhill Medical Center.
It writes The Wall Street Journal.
– The conductor pushed me out
Computer virus
Kidd believes that his daughter’s death could have been avoided.
In the lawsuit, which you can read her, she claims that her obstetrician in a text message to the hospital management admitted that the baby’s life could have been saved.
When Nicko Silar was born, the hospital had major problems with a so-called ransomware virus breaking out their computers.
In the lawsuit, Teiranni Kidd claims that instead of paying ransom to unlock the modern equipment, he relied on older technology.
Kidd believes the hacker attack cost his daughter her life.
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Missing monitors
When Kidd was in active labor, the hospital’s computers had been shut down for nearly eight days.
At the nursing station in the maternity ward, all the monitors that monitor the fetal heartbeat in the twelve maternity wards were also knocked out.
Instead, an old-fashioned one was used CTG machine who wrote out the babies’ heartbeats on paper.
According to Kidd, only one nurse checked the transcripts, and according to Kidd, Nicko Silar’s low heart rate was not detected.
– The number of health personnel who had normally monitored the birth was significantly reduced, it is stated in the lawsuit, according to CBS News.
According to the lawsuit, Kidd’s obstetrician said that she would have had an emergency caesarean section if she had found signs of low heart rate on paper.
Nicko Silar was born lifeless and needed resuscitation.
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Strikes back
Springhill Medical Center denies guilt, and blames Kidd’s obstetrician.
The hospital has according to AP asked a judge to dismiss the most serious part of the lawsuit, in which it is claimed that the hospital made a “false and misleading story” about the hacker attack, and thus made the birth dangerous.
The hospital points out that Alabama’s laws do not state that they had a duty to inform Kidd about the hacker attack.
From the boys’ room, Marcus (22) stopped the computer virus that affected over 150 countries
– Did not know anything
The day before the birth, the hospital sent out a press release about the hacker attack, in which they emphasized that their patients were not in danger.
– We will continue to offer the high quality of services that our patients deserve and expect, it was stated in the press release.
Kidd says that if she had been told about the hacker attack, she would have chosen another hospital to give birth at.
It is not known how much the mother is suing the hospital for.
VIRUS: A screenshot from a computer at a British hospital in 2017. Photo: @fendifille via AP / NTB
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Redirected ambulance – dead
In 2017, British hospitals had to reject patients, redirect ambulances and use pen and paper after an international computer attack.
Photos posted on social media showed screens showing messages demanding a $ 300 deposit if the user wanted to unlock the computer.
The message also said “Oops, your files have been encrypted”.
In 2019, a patient died in Düsseldorf, Germany, after the ambulance she was in had to be diverted due to a ransom attack.
The data attack led to all the hospital’s systems gradually crashing, and the staff not being able to access the patients’ data.
Thus, patients who needed to be immediately sent to other hospitals, and operations had to be postponed.
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