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The Ministry of Health in Honduras provides care to almost 90% of the population, but there is still little provision for the rural population, and there is a serious shortage of doctors. The ratio of doctor to population in 1984 was one to 1,510. In 2015, there were 10,995 registered doctors.
Honduras is divided into 18 departments (Spanish: departamentos).Each department is headed by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Honduras.The governor represents the executive branch in the region in addition to acting as intermediary between municipalities and various national authorities; resolves issues arising between municipalities; oversees the penitentiaries and prisons in ...
The Hospital El Salvador is a major hospital in San Salvador, El Salvador, which was planned to be the largest hospital in Latin America.The first phase was constructed between March and June 2020 as a conversion of the International Fair and Convention Center [] (Centro Internacional de Ferias y Convenciones, CIFCO) and formed part of El Salvador's response to the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Alba Consuelo Flores Ferrufino (Danlí, November 30, 1965) is a Honduran pedagogue and civil servant, current Secretary of Health of the Republic, a position that she assumed on December 27, 2018, under the presidency of Juan Orlando Hernández. [1]
Honduras, [a] officially the Republic of Honduras, [b] is a country in Central America.It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras, a large inlet of the Caribbean Sea.
In January 2014, the government of Honduras approved a general budget of 183,635,281,000 lempiras ($9 billion), allocated as follows: 179.681 million for the executive branch; 1.864 million for the judicial branch; 2.089 million for the legislative branch [5] [full citation needed]
Cortés is one of the 18 departments of Honduras. The department covers an area of 3,954 km 2 and, in 2015, had an estimated population of 1,612,762, making it the most populous in Honduras. The Merendón Mountains rise in western Cortés, but the department is mostly a tropical lowland, the Sula Valley, crossed by the Ulúa and Chamelecon rivers.
copeco.gob.hn The Permanent Contingency Commission of Honduras (Spanish: Comisión Permanente de Contingencias , COPECO), is an entity created to coordinate public and private disaster relief efforts in the framework of the National Risk Management System of Honduras (Spanish: Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos ).