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University Hospitals has notified about 700 fertility patients and their families that the frozen eggs and embryos they had stored at one of its hospitals may have been damaged over the weekend when the temperature rose in a storage tank.
The problem, in one of two large freezers preserving specimens at the UH Fertility Center housed at the Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, was discovered on Sunday morning. It occurred some time after staff left the previous afternoon, according to Patti DePompei, president of UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital and MacDonald Women's Hospital.
The liquid nitrogen freezer held about 2,000 egg and embryo specimens, according to Dr. James Liu, chairman of the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at UH Cleveland Medical Center. Some patients had more than one sample stored, and some of the samples were provided as long ago as the 1980's.
Also at Newsweek.
(Score: 2) by terrab0t on Sunday March 11 2018, @01:16AM
Even companies that run marketing websites for other companies have employees assigned to respond on evenings and weekends when there is a problem with the sites or servers. These people are responsible for potential lives and they have no automated system sending messages to someone’s phone in case of a problem.
Keeping all samples from a client in a single facility is stupid, but they would need either a second facility or a partner. No automated monitoring is archaic.