Ailing servers cause pain for hospital

KUALA LUMPUR: For the past few days, managing care at Hospital Sungai Buloh has been a “pain” as a system breakdown forced it to reschedule patients’ appointments and trace investigation results by hand, among other setbacks.

One source said the main server had been out of order for some time and the entire hospital was running on backup servers. The information technology department that runs the server had been walking on a thin line.