Honduras medical news includes treatment of patients by doctors and hospitals, supply of medicine, payment issues, the IHSS, and other medically trending topics.
More evidence has been found to back claims of the misappropriation of public funds that recently crippled the Honduras health care system (Instituto Hondureño de Seguridad Social – IHSS). The devastation of this scandal has hit the nation at its core, hurting those in this country who are most in need. The Unit of Investigation […]
In the past ten months, from October of last year to date, 50,000 people in Honduras have been infected with the chikungunya virus, but it could have been many more without the preventative work done so far, according to Authorities of the Ministry of Health of Honduras. If the population is not made more aware […]
The Dean of the Faculty of National Scientific Medical Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH) and Marco Tulio Medina, warned the Honduran public Sunday that the country has seen an increase in brain diseases, stroke and psychological problems. Mr. Medina explained that according to reports of the World Health Organization (WHO), 30 […]
Yesterday the Supreme Court trial began for the former financial manager of the Honduran Institute of Social Security (Instituto Hondureño de Seguridad Social – IHSS), Ramon Bertetti. The charges are for bribery, negotiations incompatible with the exercise of public office, fraud and misappropriation of public funds to the detriment of the administration of the Honduran […]
Santos Fito Burgos Amador, at 60 years old, was forced to undergo the humiliation of being seen rolled along the public streets of La Ceiba, half clothed, in order to receive a chest x-ray. Sunday, Mr. Burgos Amador of El Porvenir in Atlántida, fell from a bridge while fishing for food for his family. He […]