Overview
- WHO said Tehran’s Pasteur Institute, hit on Thursday, suffered heavy damage and can no longer deliver services.
- Since March 1, the agency has verified more than 20 attacks on health facilities in Iran that left at least nine people dead.
- The damage extends beyond Tehran’s flagship lab to a psychiatric hospital and a major drug maker, with strikes hitting Delaram Sina Hospital on March 29 and the Tofigh Daru pharmaceutical plant on March 31.
- Iranian officials condemned the strikes as US‑Israeli attacks yet said Pasteur’s vaccine and serum work would continue and reported no staff injuries.
- WHO appealed for US$30.3 million to support health services, trauma care and disease surveillance across the region, warning of mass displacement and higher outbreak risks under laws that protect medical sites in war.