A technical incidence in the Ministry of Health has caused the health card system and electronic recipe between autonomous communities not to work. The reason is an electrical failure produced in the early hours of this Tuesday and that has affected the data processing center of the. This implies that you cannot with electronic recipe outside the autonomy of residence or request medical appointment in health centers from another community, ministerial sources have detailed. In addition, the process of choice of specialized health training places has been temporarily interrupted, which began this Wednesday and has finally started with a couple of hours late.
The Minister of Health, Mónica García, said that “throughout the morning” they hope that the problem is solved. “The signs we have is that it will be fixed throughout the morning,” Garcia said, according to Europa Press, before his speech at the Healthcare Summit Forbes, which is celebrated these days in Madrid.
The electrical failure has affected the cooling system of the Data Processing Center, causing overheating and the temporary fall of the services housed in this infrastructure. It is an electrical, non -computer incident, and the affected systems are progressively recovering, the EFE agency reports.
In a statement, the Ministry has explained that it is already working in coordination with communities and pharmaceutical schools to mitigate the consequences of the electrical failure and restore the service as soon as possible.
On the other hand, the process of choice of specialized health training places has been interrupted. “Today was the first day they began to choose biologists, physicists, chemicals and in the afternoon pharmacists and psychologists. We have sent a personalized notification to each of the applicants who come today to choose from,” Garcia said.
This Wednesday, it is planned to start the process by which 8,772, 2,108 nursing places, 340 pharmacy seats, 247 psychology places, 60 bilogy seats, 24 chemistry seats and 43 physical seats will be awarded. Since the General Directorate of Professional Planning, individualized communications have been sent by email, to the affected persons.
“We are restoring the system to begin the process normally. We will communicate the start time with sufficient time to guarantee the normal development of the same,” they have communicated from the ministry through their social networks. Subsequently, Health has announced that the process of choice of places would begin at 12.30. The first assignment of positions (of the MIR of Chemistry) was scheduled for 10.15. The General Directorate of Professional Planning has also reported this change to each of the applicants.
