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By Staff Correspondent
The medicare system of the country became paralysed as some 15,000 nurses began u 72-hour work stoppage yesterday.
Male and Female nurses joined by the student nurses began the work stoppage at 8 am at eight medical college hospitals. 12 district hospitals and 18 nursing training institutes across the country to press home their 14-point charter of demands which include pay raise, regularlsation of Jobs of 750 nurses appointed on ad-hoc basis and increased allowances to the -student nurses.
, Meanwhile, the government began a late night talks with the leaders of the Bangladesh Diploma Nurses Association (BDNA). the 'organiser of the work abstention In a bld to over come the crisis.
Health Ministry officials -said that a meeting between the BDNA leaders and the Health Minister Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf had started al about 10 pm at his residence. place last Tuesday ending without results.
Our Sylhet Correspondent reports :
The meeting was continuing till writing of this report at 11 pm Monday.
Distraught patients were seen helplessly waiting for ’medicare at the 850 scat Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) while doctors and a small team of emergency nurses were struggling hard to cope with the situation, hospital sources said.
We are completely helpless now (because of the stoppage)' said one patient at the DMCH. "There are doctors In this hospitals alright but you need nurses for Injections, pulse checks and other purposes".
DMCH sources said that many of the patients In the hospital had left Monday.
The out-door unit of the DMCH, which normally admits 70 to 80 patients a day. got only half the number Monday, they said.
According to the BDNA leaders, the strike was being observed at all the state-owned hospitals and , clinics throughout the country.
The leaders said that if their talks with the government Monday failed, the country's nurses would start non-stop work abstention for an indefinite period from October 3.
However, they regretted the inconveniences caused to the patients.
The 72-hour work stoppage was the latest In a series of programme by the nurses.
A meeting between the government and the leaders of the striking nurses had taken place last Tuesday ending without results.
Our Sylhet Correspondent reports :