Hospital havoc as surgeries, procedures, and medical visits canceled in wake of Microsoft crash

Patients are being turned away from hospital today as non-urgent medical visits are being canceled amid the global Microsoft and CrowdStrike outage.

Mass General Brigham in Boston, MA, has canceled all non-urgent surgeries, and procedures during the IT crash.

The largest healthcare system in the Boston area said the "major worldwide software outage has affected many of our systems."

In a statement, spokesperson Noah Brown said: "Due to the severity of this issue, all previously scheduled non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and medical visits are cancelled today,

"Mass General Brigham remains open to provide care to patients with urgent health concerns in our clinics and emergency departments, and we continue to care for all patients currently receiving care in our hospitals."

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Mass General Brigham runs Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital in the Boston area. It also operates a number of laboratories, clinics and urgent cares facilities.

"We have dedicated every available resource to resolve this issue as quickly as possible, and we apologize for the inconvenience this has caused our patients. It is our highest priority to ensure that our patients receive the safest care possible," Brown added.

Meanwhile a spokesperson for Tufts Medical Center in Boston told WBZ-TV they are "currently operating under an emergency management structure as we await resolution of this disruption. During this time, we remain open and able to provide safe patient care."

And Nantucket College Hospital explained how the outage has "affected many of our systems".

"Due to the severity of this issue, all previously scheduled non-urgent surgeries, procedures, and medical visits are cancelled today," the hospital said in a statement.

On Friday, Microsoft Windows users reported global outages as cybersecurity firm, Crowdstrike was hit with tech issues, which they said came as a result of a software update.

Apologizing for the widespread disruption, Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz told NBC News: "We're deeply sorry for the impact that we've caused to customers, to travelers, to anyone affected by this, including our companies,

"We know what the issue is ... and have resolved the issue." Kurtz then went on to explain how long it would take before Crowdstrike would have everything back up and running again.

"It could be some time for some systems that just automatically won't recover, but it is our mission... to make sure every customer is fully recovered."