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A technical incidence within the Ministry of Health has precipitated the well being card system and digital recipe between autonomous communities to not work. The cause is {an electrical} failure produced within the early hours of Tuesday and that has affected the Ministry Data Processing Center. This implies that remedy with digital prescription can’t be withdrawn outdoors the autonomy of residence or request medical appointment in well being facilities from one other neighborhood, ministerial sources have detailed. In addition, the method of alternative of specialised well being coaching locations has been briefly interrupted, which started this Wednesday and has lastly began with a few hours late.

The Minister of Health, Mónica García, mentioned that “throughout the morning” they hope that the issue is solved. “The signs we have is that it will be fixed throughout the morning,” Garcia mentioned, based on Europa Press, earlier than his speech on the Healthcare Summit Forbes, which is widely known nowadays in Madrid.

The electrical failure has affected the cooling system of the Data Processing Center, inflicting overheating and the momentary fall of the providers housed on this infrastructure. It is {an electrical}, non -computer incident, and the affected methods are progressively recovering, the EFE company studies.

In a press release, the Ministry has defined that it’s already working in coordination with communities and pharmaceutical faculties to mitigate the implications of {the electrical} failure and restore the service as quickly as attainable.

On the opposite hand, the method of alternative of specialised well being coaching locations 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 mentioned.

This Wednesday, the method by which 8,772 medical locations (MIR), 2,108 nursing locations, 340 pharmacy seats, 247 psychology seats, 60 locations of bilogy, 24 chemistry seats and 43 bodily seats will probably be organized. Since the General Directorate of Professional Planning, individualized communications have been despatched by electronic mail, to the affected individuals.

“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’ve communicated from the ministry by their social networks. Subsequently, Health has introduced that the method of alternative of locations would start at 12.30. The first project of positions (of the MIR of Chemistry) was scheduled for 10.15. The General Directorate of Professional Planning has additionally reported this transformation to every of the candidates.

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