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Nigerian govt indicts hospital’s Chief Medical Director for job racketeering

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An investigative panel set up by the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare on Sunday revealed why some health workers at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital (OAUTH), Ile-Ife, Osun State, have been unpaid for months.

The investigative panel led by Aderemi Azeez found that the former Acting Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Afolabi Owojuyigbe, carried out over-employment in the hospital, without provision in the personnel budget. Mr Owojuyigbe and his accomplices are also culpable of job racketeering, according to the panel.

The ministry confirmed the development in a statement signed by its Director of Press, Patricia Deworitshe, noting that the government waded into the matter to set the record straight.

According to the statement, the panel disclosed that Mr Owojuyigbe, a Consultant Anaesthetist, employed over 1,973 staff as against the waiver for 450 vacancies granted to the hospital in the 2022 employment process by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.

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Protests

There were reports that some health workers accused the management of OAUTH of subjecting them to penury over unpaid salaries for 10 months.

The accusers lamented that they resorted to begging to feed their families “due to the hardship the non-payment of their salaries subjected them to.”

Many had also accused the hospital management of commercialising the job opportunities by allegedly selling the slots for as high as N500,000.

In response to the allegations, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, on his verified X handle @muhammadpate on 13 October, confirmed that an investigation had been completed on the matter.

“We are addressing the OAUTH situation. The investigation has just been completed on this unfortunate situation. We understand the difficulties being faced by numerous innocent health workers and will do our best to resolve it equitably,” the minister posted at the time.

Findings

In a statement on Sunday by the ministry, which is titled, ‘OAUTH Ife and the Unrest,’ it noted that the unrest was attributed to the alleged job racketeering, and over-employment saga under Mr Owojuyigbe.

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Tri-City Medical hit with ransomware attack – NBC San Diego

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Tri-City Medical hit with ransomware attack  NBC San Diego

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Medical Transcription Hack Affects 1.2 Million Chicagoans

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Cook County Health Says It Is Among the Vendor’s ‘Many’ Clients Affected by Hack

Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) •
November 8, 2023    

Medical Transcription Hack Affects 1.2 Million Chicagoans
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A major healthcare provider in Chicago that targets underserved populations is notifying as many as 1.2 million patients that their information was compromised in a data theft incident at a medical transcription vendor.

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Cook County Health, which operates two public hospitals and more than a dozen community healthcare clinics in Illinois, said it has terminated its relationship with the vendor and that it is among “many” other healthcare organizations affected by the incident.

A breach notice says the hack affected systems of Perry Johnson & Associates, the third-party transcription vendor, where “some” of the hospital system’s patient information was stored.

The data includes names, birthdates, addresses, medical information, and the dates and times of service. Approximately 2,600 of those patient records may also have included Social Security numbers, CCH said.

“CCH is one of many organizations impacted by the PJ&A data security incident. No CCH systems or servers were accessed during this incident,” CCH said. “Upon learning of the data security incident, CCH stopped sharing data with PJ&A, and terminated its relationship with PJ&A,” the county health system said.

The transcription vendor is working with…

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ECHN cyberattack compromised Social Security numbers, medical records

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The cyberattack against the Eastern Connecticut Health Network in August resulted in the theft of employee and patient names and Social Security numbers, as well as patients’ confidential health and financial information, according to an attorney representing Prospect Medical Holdings — ECHN’s parent company.

In a letter to the Connecticut attorney general’s office on Friday, Sarah Goldstein, an attorney representing the California-based Prospect, provided an update on the attack.

In the letter, which was obtained by CT Insider, she wrote that Prospect’s computer network was infiltrated and the hackers “accessed and/or acquired files that contain information to certain current and former employees and dependants” of Waterbury Hospital, Rockville General, and Manchester Memorial hospitals.

“For Prospect Medical employees and dependents, the information involved may have included their names and Social Security numbers,” Goldstein wrote.

Patients’ compromised information varied, she wrote, but it includes names, addresses, dates of birth, diagnosis, lab results, medication, and other treatment information, along with insurance information, doctors and facilities visited, dates of treatment, and financial information.

“For some patients, the information may have included their Social Security and/or driver’s license numbers,” Goldstein wrote.

Elizabeth Benton, spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said that the state was verbally told that Social Security numbers were compromised.

Prospect first admitted in August that confidential information was compromised, but had not publicly detailed what information had been potentially stolen until Friday’s letter to the attorney general’s office.

Prospect mailed notification letters through the U.S. Postal Service’s first-class mail to people whose information may have been compromised, including 24,130 Connecticut residents, she wrote.

The hack also resulted in patient information from Prospect’s hospitals in California.

Of the 63 Connecticut residents that were patients at Prospect’s California…

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