{"id":249878,"date":"2026-04-03T12:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249878"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:37:08","slug":"who-chief-warns-of-rising-attacks-on-irans-healthcare-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249878\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO chief warns of rising attacks on Iran\u2019s healthcare facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The World Health Organisation has verified more than 20 attacks on healthcare facilities in Iran since March 1, in which at least nine people have been killed, including a member of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/4\/3\/iran-war-live-trump-warns-assault-on-infrastructure-hasnt-even-started\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Al Jazeera<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said one of the strikes had hit the century-old Pasteur Institute in Tehran, as we&rsquo;ve reported earlier, leaving it &ldquo;rendered unable to continue delivering health services&rdquo;, as well as a psychiatric hospital and a facility producing cancer and multiple sclerosis medicines.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organisation has verified more than 20 attacks on healthcare facilities in Iran since March 1, in which at least nine people have been killed, including a member of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, Al Jazeera writes. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said one of the strikes had hit the century-old Pasteur Institute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,96,47,110,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-iran-en","category-society","category-health","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249879,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249878\/revisions\/249879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}