(Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization called on Saturday for an end to attacks on healthcare workers and facilities in Sudan after a drone attack on a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur region killed more than 70 people and wounded dozens.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Some 70 people have been killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offered the figure in a post on the social platform X.

The Trump administration plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization has triggered a hiring freeze, suspended investments and a travel reduction within the organization.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

GENEVA/LONDON -- The World Health Organization will cut costs and review which health programmes to prioritise after President Donald Trump announced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO, the agency's chief told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters.

The World Health Organization is freezing recruitment and slashing travel in response to the withdrawal of the U.S., its biggest funder, according to an internal email seen by POLITICO.

Tanzanian President Samia Sululu Hassan confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus after its health ministry had previously denied the spread.

WHO director general urges U.S. to reconsider exit, highlighting importance of partnership in global health efforts.

After previously blaming it for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic, President Trump is pulling the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

The World Health Organization said it regretted President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the body, after he signed an executive order that said the body mishandled the pandemic and needed reform.