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Pharmacists report that unvetted medications lacking health authority registration are potentially circulating through Honduras pharmacies and labs under an emergency decree allowing direct government purchases, posing a public health risk.

Honduras has paid approximately L10 million (about $400,000) to private hospitals for 154 surgeries and procedures under an emergency health decree aimed at reducing public-hospital surgical backlogs, at an average cost of L63,783 per case, though lawmakers question whether prices are inflated.