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Laptop stolen from hospital in Erandwane

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Dissent

TNN reports:

One out of the two laptops, used for entering patients’ records, was stolen from the fourth floor of a private hospital in Erandwane on Friday afternoon.

Prasad Wahal, a hospital employee, lodged a complaint the with Alankar police. Wavhal told TOI the hospital had kept two laptops in the fourth-floor passage for the doctors’ and nurses’ convenience. “The doctors and nurses entered their records in the laptops,” he said.

He said both the laptops have passwords so that nobody else could access them. Moreover, the laptops were locked in a case so that no one could steal them either.

Read more on Times of India.


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