TegucigalpaMore than 6,000 patients wait for surgery at Honduras’s largest public hospital.
Doctors’ 49-day assemblies left more than 1,000 elective operations undone, hospital figures show.
A 500-million-lempira trust pays private hospitals up to 110,000 lempiras an operation and had funded 405 by July.
Critics say the trust’s spending lacks transparency.
How each outlet framed it
- Contracorriente leans critical
- questions the lack of transparency in the 500-million-lempira fideicomiso funding private surgeries at 110,000 lempiras each
Sources: Contracorriente