{"entity":{"id":"hospital-escuela-honduras","kind":"institution","name":"Hospital Escuela (Tegucigalpa)","aka":["Hospital Escuela Universitario","HEU","University Teaching Hospital, Tegucigalpa"],"tldr":"A public teaching hospital in Tegucigalpa, run by the Ministry of Health. Its children's cancer ward has treated children with cancer since 1982, with medicines paid for by a charity.","summary":"Hospital Escuela's history says the Materno Infantil block opened on 1 May 1969 and the medical-surgical block on 19 May 1979, the two merging to form the Hospital Escuela; it was planned under a 1968 agreement with the National Autonomous University of Honduras, and from 1977 the Secretaría de Salud took over its administration. The Fundación Hondureña para el Niño con Cáncer says the hospital has been the centre of care for children with cancer in Honduras since 1982, with a paediatric haemato-oncology ward that has inpatient beds, outpatient clinics and a high-dose chemotherapy room, and that its own Casa Hogar near the hospital houses families from outside the capital. Coordinates are Wikidata's (Q17633897).","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Hospital Escuela: history","url":"https://hospitalescuela.hn/historia-el-hospital/"},{"label":"FHNC: hospital locations","url":"https://salvamivida.org/ubicaciones"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["childhood-cancers"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["sesal-honduras","fhnc-honduras"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Tegucigalpa","country":"HN","lat":14.089,"lng":-87.197,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://hospitalescuela.hn","programs":["Paediatric haemato-oncology (inpatient, outpatient, high-dose chemotherapy)","Pathology laboratory"]},"route":"/institutions/hospital-escuela-honduras/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"childhood-cancers","kind":"cancer","name":"Childhood cancers (all types)","route":"/cancers/childhood-cancers/"}],"institution":[{"id":"fhnc-honduras","kind":"institution","name":"Fundación Hondureña para el Niño con Cáncer","route":"/institutions/fhnc-honduras/"},{"id":"sesal-honduras","kind":"institution","name":"Secretaría de Salud de Honduras (SESAL)","route":"/institutions/sesal-honduras/"}]}}