CUH patient praises staff for saving his life after HSE cyberattack threatened treatment

Without blood going to your lungs to carry the oxygen around the body, your body doesn’t function very well. I wasn’t well, I had no energy and couldn’t do anything.

The cyberattack on the IT systems of HSE hospitals across the country caused major disruption to patients and staff, Cork University Hospital included. Picture: Dan Linehan

A Cork University Hospital (CUH) patient has credited hospital staff for saving his life after the HSE cyberattack disrupted IT systems and threatened patient treatment plans.

Tom Sullivan, 67, from Turners Cross in Cork has been living with aplastic anaemia, a form of blood cancer since his diagnosis in 2019.