With the server down for more than 24 hours now, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, on Thursday issued a fresh set of standard operating procedures (SOP) which says admission, discharge, and transfer of patients will be done manually at the hospital until E-Hospital is back up.
“Latest SOPs that have to be followed in manual mode till E-Hospital is down. Admission, discharge, and transfer are to be done manually at AIIMS, New Delhi. Indent to be done manually,” the hospital said.
It further said that the death or birth certificates are to be made manually on forms as per instruction from the working committee.
“Only urgent samples to be sent and that too with filled forms. Only urgent investigations are to be sent with forms as per instruction from the working committee,” it added.
Earlier on Wednesday, AIIMS reported a failure in its server. The server has been down since 7 a.m. today, and the officials have been manually managing the OPD and sample collection.
The AIIMS said that it is taking measures to restore the digital services and is seeking support from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and the National Informatics Centre (NIC).
