'Recycled' NHS IT equipment found polluting Ghana
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Mail on Sunday correspondent finds NHS Trust computers – with confidential patient data still intact – in Ghanaian toxic
Discarded NHS computers containing confidential patient data have been found in a Ghanaian toxic waste dump, according to a report in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
Equipment from Thames Gateway NHS Trust – among others – was found in a dumping ground near the Ghanaian city of
The reporter claims to have bought one PC at site that contained prescription details of various named patients.
The story was published in the same week the
But if the Mail on Sunday’s scathing report is to be believed, the current environmental and social impact of IT equipment – government or otherwise – is so great that such ‘carbon neutrality’ pledges look woefully inadequate.
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