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Honduras's Colegio Médico continues work stoppages into a 41-day labor dispute, maintaining 15 demands including wage adjustments, contract signings, and rehiring of dismissed physicians, while public-hospital outpatient services remain suspended and patient backlogs grow.

About 350 census takers and supervisors in Atlántida protested at the regional governor's office on September 21, demanding full payment for August–September work and a formal new contract after the INE failed to pay them and their initial contract expired.

Municipal workers reinstated by court order after layoffs in 2022–2023 remain relegated to a hallway in poor conditions at a San Pedro Sula city building, prompting human-rights groups to document the situation and urge the city to reassign them properly.

San Pedro Sula municipality faces nearly L48 million in unpaid court-ordered settlements to employees who won labor lawsuits, with reintegrated workers relegated to office hallways without duties and suffering heat-related health problems while awaiting payment.

Honduras's nursing association is warning it will hold informational assemblies if the Health Ministry does not reinstate about 100 fired nurses, pay overdue benefits, and establish a promised technical committee to address grievances.

President Asfura's government and the Medical College of Honduras agreed on a new salary scale, reinstatement of separated physicians, and improved benefits for health-sector workers, ending the physicians' nationwide informational assemblies.