Hospital patients turned away because of computer glitch
Hospital clinics in the southern capital of Pécs were closed to all patients except emergency cases on Monday due to a malfunction of the computer system, reports stop.hu, based on a report in local daily Új Dunántúli Napló.
Due to the glitch in the system that manages the clinics' waiting lists, hundreds of patients who had received an appointment weeks or even months ago were left waiting in vain at the institutions. They will probably be given new appointments by phone or mail and attended to before other patients on the lists.
Gábor L. Kovács, president of the Medical Science and Health Science Coordination Center (Orvostudományi és Egészségtudományi Koordinációs Központ), said that the breakdown occurred while the system's IT managers were performing a legally-mandated modification to the software that manages the waiting lists.
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