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A three-year-old in Tegucigalpa died from severe dengue complications, bringing Honduras's 2026 dengue death toll to five — including a 22-year-old, a 28-year-old, and three minors — as health officials urge families to eliminate mosquito breeding sites during the rainy season.

Recent downpours caused a roof leak and ceiling collapse in the emergency department of Hospital Escuela, Honduras's main public referral hospital, highlighting chronic infrastructure problems that staff say require comprehensive renovation, not temporary repairs.

The Tegucigalpa–Comayagüela municipal government removed 75 tons of accumulated garbage, bulky waste, and vegetation from the Motagua field and area under the Carías Bridge in a large-scale cleanup aimed at reclaiming public space, reducing contamination, and cutting flood risk during the rainy season.

Tegucigalpa's municipal emergency committee responded to 101 incidents during a green weather alert, including flooding, fallen trees, drain cleaning, and water distribution to vulnerable neighborhoods.

Tegucigalpa's municipal government is dredging, cleaning, and channeling six priority streams—removing 60,000 cubic meters of sediment and debris—to reduce flooding risk for roughly 600 communities during the June-through-November rainy season.

Tegucigalpa's mayor coordinated the deployment of more than 20 first-response teams to strategic points across the capital ahead of forecast heavy rain this weekend to accelerate emergency care in vulnerable neighborhoods.