An eight day long agitation programme from nurses has come to an end since yesterday morning after Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College authorities agreed to stop accommodating medical college student on the Barisal Nursing College premises.
The assurances came after SBMC academic council held a meeting with the figureheads of the agitation programme on Sunday night and informed them about the alternative accommodations arranged for the medical college students.
“On the basis of the assurances from the SBMC authourity, we declared to postpone our eight-day long agitation programme, and released BNC principal withdrawing the six-day-long lockout of her office,” said Mohiuddin, spokesperson of nursing students.
Apart from him, the president and the secretary of Bangladesh Diploma Nurses Association, and the vice president of the Association for Registered Nurses Ismat Ara Parvin, Anisur Rahman, and Kawsar Mahmud were present in the meeting, Mohiuddin informed.
SBMC will now accommodate the students in the college doctors and officers’ quarters, quarters for the interns, and other girls’ hostels.
SBMC Principal Dr Bhaskar Saha and BNC principal Aleya Begum confirmed the details to the Dhaka Tribune.