The medical supply crisis in Honduras is affecting hospitals such as Mario Catarion Rivas in San Pedro Sula

The announcement was made by the President of CMH, Elmer Mayes, who stated that on Friday of this week, a meeting of the regional delegates will determine the actions personnel will take in the following days. According to Mr. Mayes, the situation in the hospital school, Mario Catarino Rivas, and the sanatorium, del Sur, is unsustainable and disastrous.

Mayes informed that the crisis in the hospital has become dramatic.  Families of patients are being forced to buy necessary drugs, while doctors have to buy gloves, masks and other materials to treat the sick.

He said of all the hospitals with supply shortages, the Mario Catarino Rivas in San Pedro Sula is the one with the greatest need, and following that would be the South Hospital in Choluteca, and the Tegucigalpa School hospital.

Faced with this situation, the CMH President is urging the Honduran government to take immediate action to solve this tragedy.  Meanwhile, doctors around the country have been invited to take to lobbying through the work stoppage, which would aggravate the crisis in hospitals, with many people ending up with a lot of medical bills, and that’s why the use of resources from sites such as http://www.debtconsolidation.com/medical-bills can help people recurring in this debt.

“The Medical College has invited its 27 delegates for this Friday, in the capital of the Republic, to address this point.  There we will take pressure measurements that are necessary because already we can not continue working under these deplorable conditions,” he said.

“What we want, is that we have the basics for work, and that the government remembers that there are still over 250 doctors under contract, which have not been paid their salaries this year,” remarked the medical professional.

Meanwhile, President Porfirio Lobo announced that next Monday, through the Ministry of health, the purchase of 100 million lempiras in drugs will be awarded to supply pharmacies in public hospitals.

The Special Prosecutor for Human Rights has initiated investigations to determine whether the 26 recent deaths in the Mario Catarino Rivas hospital are due to lack of drugs, which could result in legal action being taken against the health authorities.