‘Covid brought us to our knees, but the cyberattack was just a sucker-punch to the chest’
Medics describe the chaos in the wake of the HSE cyberattack in May of 2021 – and ask whether anything has been done to prevent a potential next one
Dr Gabrielle Colleran assumed there had been a major accident given the scene that greeted her as she arrived at work on the morning of Monday, May 14, 2021.
“I hadn’t heard it on the radio so I arrived into the department and there was a flurry of activity so I knew something significant was happening, but I assumed first it was a major trauma until someone told me everything was down,” the consultant paediatric radiologist at Children’s Health Ireland told the Business Post.
