World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. (Guilhem Vellut/Wikipedia)

✂️WHO staff association in dark over budget cut deliberations, despite DG promises. Critical decisions about a major restructuring to slash its budget by a fifth in response to US funding cuts are so far being made behind closed doors, according to staff members.

🏥Myanmar healthcare facilities overwhelmed, WHO says, and scale of earthquake deaths and injuries ‘not fully understood’. The official death toll from the quake has risen to over 2,000, with the UN health agency reporting that three hospitals have been destroyed and 22 partially damaged across the region.

⛑️Red Cross outraged over killing of medics by Israeli forces in Gaza. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the ambulances struck in al-Hashahin on 23 March were clearly marked and the medics wore emblems that should have protected them, in a breach of international humanitarian law.

🍞Hundreds of thousands at risk of malnutrition in Gaza, WFP says. The organisation said that, together with its partners, they have been unable to bring new food supplies into Gaza for more than three weeks, with current stocks unlikely to last more than two weeks.