A sudden equipment failure knocked out two of the three CT scanners serving the emergency department of the AOU San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona in Salerno, raising the prospect of slowdowns and disruption for patients.
The outage affected diagnostic capacity at a moment when the emergency department was already handling an exceptionally high volume of visits, a load linked in part to the temporary closure of nearby emergency departments.
The hospital's strategic management described the disruption as entirely unforeseeable. Maintenance technicians were called in and were working to restore the equipment to full operation.
No estimated timeline for the repair was provided, and no precise figures were reported on waiting times or the number of patients affected.
