In response to mounting protests over a corruption scandal that has rocked his administration, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez has ordered the military to take control of eight public hospitals. The scandal involves the siphoning off funds from the country's health care system to the ruling party and Hernandez's own election campaign. The measures is designed to boost badly eroded public confidence, and indeed, there is popular support for the measure based on the belief it could restore transparency and the available of needed medicines currently in short supply due to lack of funds. teleSUR
