On Saturday the interns of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital
in Sylhet city staged demonstrations in the hospital's compound and continued their strike for the third day, demanding immediate withdrawal of punishment of two of their fellows.
Most of the 120 interns of the hospital staged a sit-in from the morning to underline their demand.
The hospital's authorities sat for an hour-long meeting, from around 10:30am, with the angry interns in order to persuade them to stop agitating and resume their duties.
But they refused to start working until their demand was met, said sources present in the meeting.
The interns started work abstention for an indefinite period on Thursday noon, demanding withdrawal of the one-month suspension order against two of their colleagues.
They claimed that the medical college's principal had taken the decision of punishment illogically, without any evidence of their two fellow interns' involvement in slandering a female student.
The college authorities on Thursday suspended two interns and one student because they had allegedly spread calumny against a 4th year female student.
On being contacted Major General (retired) Nazmul Islam, the medical college's principal, said
that the authorities are
continuing talks with
the interns.
'I hope that they agree to resume working as we have assured them that we would consider their demand,' said the principal, adding that the two interns have been suspended as they breached the academic code.
But the interns claimed that they would not
stop their strike until
they receive a written decision of the withdrawal
of punishment of their two fellows.
Soruce : New Age
