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50 nurses hurt in police clubbing

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At least 50 unemployed and diploma student nurses were injured when police clubbed the nurses gathering to stage a sit-in at the Directorate of Nursing Services (DNS) office at Motijheel yesterday.
Twenty-three of them were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), of whom condition of three was said to be critical.
The injured are Shebika, Mahmuda, Nurunnahar, Rosy, Sharli Sarker, Anwara, Sabuj,
Mansura, Munni, Afsana, Rashida, Taslima, Nazma, Maruf, Sajjad,
Rahima, Nargis, Kamrul, Nanda,
Urmi, Asma, Sheuli and Rabeya.
Some 1,000 unemployed and students nurses from 38 government nursing institutes across the country gathered in front of the DNS office housed in the Ispahani Building yesterday morning to stage FROM PAGE 1 the sit-in.
Nurses under the banner of Bangladesh Unemployed Diploma Nurses Association (BUDNA) and Bangladesh Student Diploma Nurses Association (BSDNA) were protesting the authorities' move to appoint 177 nurses, who passed from private nursing institutes, to government hospitals.
At 10:30am, the nurses tried to go to the DNS office on the third floor of the building and police stationed there since the morning swooped on them and began clubbing them indiscriminately.
Police forced them out of the building and also dispersed the agitating nurses from the area by firing rubber bullets and teargas shells.
Witnesses said though there were a number of women police there, police men mostly took part in the action. The policemen molested a number of agitating nurses, they alleged.
Locals and colleagues took the nurses with multiple injuries to the DMCH.
Meanwhile, police arrested one male nurse for attacking policewomen.
Police claimed some 10 of their women members -- one subinspector, seven constables and two women ansars -- were injured during the scuffle. The injured policewomen were treated at Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital. The agitating nurses threw brickbats, damaging the windowpanes of seven vehicles, police
alleged.
Later on, the nurses went to the National Press Club with a procession to hold a rally in protest at the police attack. But police dispersed them.
The nurses then gathered in front of the DMCH Nursing Institute and broke its windowpanes on the ground floor.
During a demonstration there, the DMCH staff nurses expressed solidarity with agitating nurses. The staff nurses announced that they would soon go for a boycott in support of the agitating unemployed and student nurses.
Nurses told The Daily Star that the authorities had threatened to cut off power and water supply lines to the DMCH Nursing Institute for their involvement in the agitation.
The BUDNA and BSDNA began work abstentions since October 1 for varied durations before embarking on an indefinite boycott from October 7. On October 8, police clubbed and injured 20 nurses during a rally on the road near the Old High Court Building.
The BUDNA and BSDNA alleged the government has finalised appointment of some 180 nurses, who passed diploma from non-government institutions.
"Receiving huge bribes, some dishonest government officials are working for their appointments though there are 4,000 nurses who have passed from government institutions, but are still jobless," alleged BSDNA President Lima Rodrix.