{"id":76836,"date":"2026-03-26T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/26\/who-warns-of-health-crisis-unfolding-in-real-time-across-middle-east"},"modified":"2026-03-26T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T05:00:27","slug":"who-warns-of-health-crisis-unfolding-in-real-time-across-middle-east-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76836","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns of health crisis \u2018unfolding in real time\u2019 across Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hostilities should halt and healthcare facilities must be treated as \u2018safe havens\u2019, WHO\u2019s regional chief has said<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/mar\/25\/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-war-oil-prices-more-us-troops-reportedly-deployed-donald-trump-attacks-on-lebanon\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A total stop to hostilities in the Middle East is needed to halt a \u201chealth crisis unfolding in real time\u201d, the World Health Organization\u2019s chief in the region has said.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and other healthcare facilities must be treated as \u201csafe havens\u201d, urged <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hananbalkhy\">Dr Hanan Balkhy<\/a>, the WHO\u2019s regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/26\/who-warns-of-health-crisis-unfolding-in-real-time-across-middle-east\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostilities should halt and healthcare facilities must be treated as \u2018safe havens\u2019, WHO\u2019s regional chief has saidMiddle East crisis \u2013 live updatesA total stop to hostilities in the Middle East is needed to halt a \u201chealth crisis unfolding in real time\u201d,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4669,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1644,212,60,404,3510,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-gaza","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-pakistan","category-sudan","category-us-israel-war-on-iran","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76841,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76836\/revisions\/76841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}