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Weekly Report - 28 August 2014 (WR-14-34)
HONDURAS: Health minister admits to collapsed system
Doctors, nurses and health care workers staged a ‘Dignity March’ in several Honduran cities on 24 August in protest at the dangerously deteriorated state of the public health system. Admitting that the system was in a state of “collapse”, Health Minister Yolani Batres nonetheless took umbrage at the protest, warning of sanctions against striking workers. The congressional health committee also released a report damning of public health workers, saying patient care in the country’s hospitals had become “dehumanised”.
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