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Nurses postpone strike until PM’s return from KSA

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Sat Jun 4, 2016 01:44 PM Last update on: Sat Jun 4, 2016 01:59 PM
Unemployed nurses under the banners of Unemployed Diploma Nurses' Association and BBGNS demonstrate in front of Health Minister Mohammed Nasim's residence at Dhanmondi on May 30, 2016 protesting a PSC circular of March 28 on recruiting 3,616 senior nurses in public hospitals. Photo: Star

Agitating nurses today postponed their ongoing strike until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns from her visit to Saudi Arabia. 

The nurses have postponed the strike with a hope that they would come to a solution after meeting with the premier on her return, Nahida Akhter, a spokesperson for Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses' Society (BBGNS), told The Daily Star.

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READ MORE: Unemployed nurses to be on streets until meeting PM

Several hundred nurses under the banner of Unemployed Diploma Nurses Association and Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses' Society (BBGNS) have been demonstrating since early April, protesting a March 28 Public Service Commission circular on recruitment of 3,616 senior nurses at public hospitals.

READ MORE: Unemployed nurses back on streets with unmet demands

The circular said applicants must be below 36 and have Bachelor of Science degree or diploma in nursing to be eligible for taking the recruitment test.

The recruitment exam for the nurses was held yesterday amid boycotts by the two nurses associations that had been protesting the new recruitment system through the Public Service Commission (PSC).

Unemployed nurses face a police barricade near the capital's Bangladesh Secretariat on May 26, 2016, where they were headed protesting a Bangladesh Public Service Commission recruitment circular of March 28 and demanding that the corresponding exam scheduled for June 3 be postponed and that this be the last time previous selection criteria be followed -- year of graduation, merit, and seniority. Photo: Star

“Huge number of candidates appeared in the exam. I thank the PSC for holding the exam peacefully and also the administration and law enforcers,” Health Minister Mohammed Nasim said at a press conference at his Dhanmondi residence yesterday.

Nurses associations, who demonstrated against the exam at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital campus yesterday, however, estimate only 35 percent of the total 18,063 applicants has appeared for it, and demanded the exam to be scrapped.

READ MORE: Unemployed nurses demand cancellation of recruitment test

Earlier on June 1, at least 50 nurses were injured in a clash with police while trying to enter the health minister's Dhanmondi residence in the capital to press for their demand for revising the nurses' recruitment process.

READ MORE: Fifty hurt in police action

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