Hospital Capacity

Hospital San Felipe has performed more than 3,600 surgical procedures and biopsies since April 2026, with ophthalmology accounting for over 1,500 cases, as part of an effort to reduce the surgical backlog and serve patients who had waited two to three years for operations.

Hospital Escuela's emergency wards are at 120% capacity, overwhelmed by road-accident victims, as traffic crashes have killed more than 1,950 people in Honduras so far in 2026.

The municipality of Catacamas in Olancho has declared an emergency after accumulating over 400 dengue cases in more than 20 weeks, with the local hospital overwhelmed and unable to handle other medical emergencies.

Hospital Santo Hermano Pedro in Catacamas declared an alert over a sustained rise in dengue cases and announced temporary limits on specialized outpatient care, with emergency and internal medicine units treating 10–15 dengue patients each.