1,000 Healthcare Workers And Allies Head To Washington To Demand Congressional Action To Prevent Genocide

(MENAFN- EIN Presswire) EINPresswire/ -- Timed during Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month, participants will head to Capitol Hill for coordinated congressional meetings and a 10:30 AM press conference, calling on lawmakers to take urgent action to end U.S. complicity in genocide, mass atrocity, and the systematic destruction of civilian life and healthcare systems.

Drawing on their frontline expertise, healthcare workers will urge elected officials to act on the clear warning signs of catastrophe: attacks on hospitals and healthcare workers, forced displacement, starvation, bombardment, siege, detention, torture, and the collapse of essential systems needed to sustain life.
Participants will call for immediate congressional action to:
1. Protect civilians and healthcare workers
2. Defend hospitals and civilian healthcare infrastructure
3. Restore and safeguard humanitarian and medical access
4. Oppose U.S. political, military, and economic support for policies enabling mass atrocity

The advocacy day will spotlight mass violence and assaults on healthcare systems in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Sudan, Congo, and communities under attack in the United States.

WHO:
- Doctors Against Genocide
- Healthcare workers, medical students, public health professionals, researchers, labor allies, and advocates from across the United States
- Members of DAG and partner organizations speaking at the press conference

WHAT:
National advocacy day and coordinated congressional meetings
Calls for urgent congressional action to prevent genocide and protect healthcare systems

WHEN:
Tuesday, April 15, 2026
10:30 AM ET

WHERE:
Washington, D.C.
Press conference location to be shared
Capitol Hill congressional office meetings to follow

WHY:
Healthcare workers are mobilizing to demand concrete action against the conditions that enable genocide and mass atrocity, including the destruction of hospitals, denial of medical care, starvation, siege, and attacks on civilians and those keeping communities alive.
Participants will urge lawmakers to take immediate steps to protect civilian life, defend healthcare systems, restore humanitarian and medical access, and end support for policies fueling mass death, displacement, and systemic collapse.

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