Honduras Hospitals Halt Surgeries Amid Supply Shortages

Published on Honduras Daily · Jul 17, 2026 · Originally reported July 16, 2026 by El Libertador

The president of the Medical College says public hospitals are canceling operations for lack of sterile surgical supplies, sutures, and lab reagents—a crisis wider than the fentanyl shortage—while questioning the government's tally of emergency surgeries carried out in private centers.