Southwestern Ontario hospitals over a month away from restoring full service as IT network rebuilt

The five southwestern Ontario hospitals and their shared services provider hit by ransomware won’t be able to restore full IT services — including rebuilding the IT network — for over a month, if not longer, according to a statement from the affected institutions. In fact, crucial medical charting of patients won’t be restored until mid-December,

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