Expired Drugs Found in Honduras' Fraud-Gripped Health Institute

Expired Drugs Found in Honduras' Fraud-Gripped Health Institute
Published 24 June 2015 (12 hours 9 minutes ago)

The discovery of millions of dollars in expired drugs comes as President Hernandez commits to “clamping down” on impunity and corruption.

Honduran authorities discovered over US$2 million in expired medicines in storage in the country's social security institute, which is also currently embroiled in another corruption scandal, national newspaper La Tribuna reported.

According to La Tribuna, various sectors of the social security body, known as IHSS, purposefully left medicines to expire in order to benefit economically from new tenders.

The find comes at the same time hospitals are suffering severe drug and funding shortages, while Honduran nurses have denounced difficult working conditions and their inability to deliver needed care to hundreds of patients.

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