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Samuel Santos, president of the Medical College of Honduras, testified before prosecutors about a complaint over suspended medical services during the ongoing physician strike over unpaid wages, as the dispute continues to block public healthcare.

Physicians have suspended outpatient consultations for 29 consecutive days nationwide to demand back wages owed to roughly 840 doctors, with some not paid for nine months, affecting over 27,000 patients according to health authorities.

At least 200 interim and 500 contract physicians at the Honduran Social Security Institute (IHSS) have not received payment, according to the association's president Ricardo Rodas.

Honduras's Medical College convened a nationwide assembly on October 4 to address labor grievances including an end to dismissals, reinstatement of fired professionals, and unpaid wages, with emergency services required to remain staffed.

Honduras's Medical College has prolonged nationwide informational assemblies in the public health system, pressing for resolution of unjustified layoffs, back pay for over 1,300 health workers owed up to eight months of salary, and broader healthcare instability.

Ricardo Rodas, president of the IHSS doctors' association, says informational assemblies will continue until the Social Security Institute pays outstanding wages owed to temporary staff and approximately 400 physicians.

About 300 employees of Honduras's National Emergency System 911—ambulance staff, paramedics, and dispatchers—say they have not been paid for several months, with Human Resources offering no explanation for the delays that began when the current government took office.