WHO warns about attacks on Iran health facilities, regional threat

WHO warns about attacks on Iran health facilities, regional threat The World Health Organization warned Friday about "multiple attacks on health" in Iran following an air strike on a facility in Tehran, and launched an urgent appeal to aid health systems affected in the wider region. "Multiple attacks on health have been reported in the Iranian capital, Tehran, in recent days amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. He said the Pasteur Institute, a public health and research centre in the capital, "sustained significant damage and was rendered unable to continue delivering health services" - one of 20 facilities the WHO has confirmed as being targeted.