Staff Reporter :
Several hundred unemployed nurses on Saturday laid a siege in front of the Directorate of Nursing Services at Agargaon in the capital to press home their three-point demand.
They also confined the Acting Director of Nursing Services Nilufar Farhad in her office at Agargaon during the protest.
The jobless nurses under the banner of Bangladesh Diploma and Unemployed Nurses Association and Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses Society gathered in front of the Directorate around 10:30am and besieged the office.
“We demand 10,000 more new posts of nurses as 3728 vacant posts will be filled as early as possible,” said Rajib Kumar Biswas, President of Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses Society.
He said, the government will have to fill 89 per cent vacant posts with nurses
having diploma degree and the rest 11 per cent having BSc nursing degree.
“The recruitment must be done on merit basis,” Rajib Kumar said.
He also demanded recruitment to public hospitals as per seniority instead of any entry test.
Unemployed nurses also protested the issuance of a circular by the Public Service Commission (PSC) seeking to recruit 3,616 senior nurses through examinations.
They also protested police action against them at a blockade programme in the capital on March 30 and demanded exemplary punishment to the policemen.
Later, they withdrew the siege programme when Health Minister Mohammad Nasim assured them that he would hold a meeting with the nurses over the issue.
Several hundred unemployed nurses on Saturday laid a siege in front of the Directorate of Nursing Services at Agargaon in the capital to press home their three-point demand.
They also confined the Acting Director of Nursing Services Nilufar Farhad in her office at Agargaon during the protest.
The jobless nurses under the banner of Bangladesh Diploma and Unemployed Nurses Association and Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses Society gathered in front of the Directorate around 10:30am and besieged the office.
“We demand 10,000 more new posts of nurses as 3728 vacant posts will be filled as early as possible,” said Rajib Kumar Biswas, President of Bangladesh Basic Graduate Nurses Society.
He said, the government will have to fill 89 per cent vacant posts with nurses
having diploma degree and the rest 11 per cent having BSc nursing degree.
“The recruitment must be done on merit basis,” Rajib Kumar said.
He also demanded recruitment to public hospitals as per seniority instead of any entry test.
Unemployed nurses also protested the issuance of a circular by the Public Service Commission (PSC) seeking to recruit 3,616 senior nurses through examinations.
They also protested police action against them at a blockade programme in the capital on March 30 and demanded exemplary punishment to the policemen.
Later, they withdrew the siege programme when Health Minister Mohammad Nasim assured them that he would hold a meeting with the nurses over the issue.
