chandigarh on monday hospitals in the city and scientific organisations flagged a red alert after the wannacry ransomware threat that affected critical data globally including hospitals in the uk and academic institutions in chinanone of the institutes here has reported any intrusion of the malware on monday there was a webcast by the computer emergency response team of india a government agency attended by scientists at the central scientific instruments organisation and the institute of microbial technology imtechalso all major hospitals including pgimer government medical college and hospital in sector 32 gmch and the government multispecialty hospital gmsh in sector 16 have issued an advisory to staff members to be wary of suspicious mail attachments in fact most users in the hospital and scientific organisations feel the malware attack is a sign to be more rampu up defences against cyber attackspgimer has online patient registration and laboratory test reports while the gmch has online appointment reg istration and laboratory test reports the hospital files and data in the pgimer and other hospitals in punjab are managed mainly by cdac mohali also the institutes operating system is linux while the malware has affected only windows systems we have issued an advisory to all users in the hospital since we have linux as the operating system we are safe all our mails are regulated under the national informatics centre which has multiple security said dr n khandelwal in charge of information technology at pgimergmch and gmsh also held a meeting to make users aware of the cyber attackour firewalls are strong we have backed up our data said dr a k janmeja officiating director principal of gmchimtech has a mixture of operating systems that include linux macintosh and windows this malware affects only windows os unethical sites have also been blocked said harvinder jassal head of it at imt