WHO warns about attacks on Iran health facilities, regional threat
The Hindu
WHO warns of escalating attacks on health facilities in Iran, urging urgent support for impacted health systems in the region.
The World Health Organization warned on Friday (April 3, 2026) about "multiple attacks on health" in Iran following an airstrike 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.
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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.
Iranian Health Ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour posted pictures on X on Thursday (April 2) showing a heavily damaged building, with parts of the facility reduced to rubble.
Iran's ISNA news agency reported that the "services of the Pasteur Institute of Iran have not been interrupted by these attacks", adding that vaccine and serum production would continue.
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