Staff Reporter :Agitating diploma nurses on Saturday postponed their ongoing movement until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns from her visit to Saudi Arabia. The nurses took this decision in the hope that they might find a solution after meeting with the Prime Minister, said Nahida Akhter, Secretary General of Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses’ Society (BBGNS) on Saturday.The diploma nurses under the banner of BBGNS and Bangladesh Diploma Bekar Nurses’ Association (BDBNA) have been demonstrating from the first week of April, the Public Service Commission’s decision on recruitment of 3,616 senior nurses at public hospitals.The circular said, applicants must be below 36 years and should have Bachelor of Science degree or diploma in nursing.The recruitment examination 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). A large number of candidates appeared in the examination. I am giving thanks to the PSC for holding the examination peacefully and also the administration and law enforcers,” Health Minister Mohammed Nasim said in a press briefing at his Dhanmondi residence on Friday.Nurses associations, who demonstrated against the examination at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital campus on Friday, however, assumed on at 35 percent of the total 18,063 applicants sat for the examination. Earlier on June 1, at least 50 nurses were injured in a clash with police when they were trying to lay siege to the Health Minister’s Dhanmondi residence in the capital to press home their demand for revising the nurses’ recruitment process.
