Maternity hospitals turn to speedy porters as cyber hack downs their technology

It took the Cork University Maternity Hospital less than eight hours after cyberattack to find way around the problems.

Of the country's 19 maternity hospitals, four run only on electronic records so the cyberattack has forced them back to paper charts rushed by porters around the wards.

In Cork University Maternity Hospital it took them less than eight hours after the attack to figure out a way to get around the problems, with the first theatre opened at 11am on that day.