Medical News

Honduras medical news includes treatment of patients by doctors and hospitals, supply of medicine, payment issues, the IHSS, and other medically trending topics.

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Dr. Maria Elena Bottazzi, associate dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2015 Jose Cecilio del Valle National Science Award from the government of Honduras. The award, named for a political and philosophical leader in Honduras and Central America, was […]

Tuberculous on the Rise in San Pedro Sula

Tuberculous on the Rise in San Pedro Sula

Tuberculous is an epidemic in Honduras, which basically means it’s always been present, but from time to time an inability to control it means it surges violently in the country. That’s how Delia Tercero, an epidemiologist from the regional department of health explained it, and that they’ve detected more people affected by it. “We have […]

Honduras Over the Weekend

Honduras Over the Weekend

Would you like to gain a bit of a glimpse into what happened throughout the country, over the weekend? Well if so, you’re in luck!   On Friday a medical brigade set up shop in San Pedro Sula’s central park. It worked for free and treated some 300 residents of the city, before leaving six […]

Privatization of Health-Care

Privatization of Health-Care

Tumor specialists, heart specialists, neurosurgeons, intensive care workers, specialists in inherited illnesses, HIV specialists, among others will not be covered following reforms to contemporary social security, says Elmer Mayes, President of the Honduras Medical College (CMH – Colegio Medico de Honduras). Doctor Mayes said that the new law would basically privatize high-cost medical care throughout […]