Tegucigalpa727 doctors remain unpaid after 47 days of protest.
Honduras’s president, Nasry Asfura, who is also health minister, left for Italy on 20 October.
At Hospital Escuela, renal patient Javier Ordóñez says supplies almost never arrive, and some patients wait three months for appointments.
The Honduran Medical Association says the government already broke an April pay agreement.
Vice Minister José Miguel Castillo promised payment on Friday 23 October.
How each outlet framed it
- Contracorriente leans critical
- frames the strike as 47 days long and tied to Asfura also being health minister while touring Italy, with patients waiting on plastic chairs
Sources: Contracorriente