The government has decided to increase the entry age of senior and staff nurses to the state-run hospitals and the healthcare centres across the country.
The decision came from a regular cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the Secretariat yesterday, said Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hussain.
He said the new entry age for the nurses is now 36 and the benchmark would be in force by December 31, 2018.
Musharraf Hussain went on that there are 3,728 posts vacant in the profession and the government has decided to appoint 10,000 nurses more soon.