Puerto Lempira Gets Hyperbaric Chamber for Divers

Published on Honduras Daily · Jun 18, 2026 · Originally reported June 17, 2026 by SEDENA Honduras

Honduras has installed a hyperbaric chamber at the Puerto Lempira hospital in Gracias a Dios to treat decompression sickness in Miskito divers, fulfilling a ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and ending dangerous emergency transfers.

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