No salary for 18 months

The staff staged demonstrations on several occasions and abstained from wok to realise their salaries, but to no effect.

Official sources said, the 70 employees were appointed in 1998 under a project to upgrade the hospital to 100-bed from 50.

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Sources at Magura Civil Surgeon's office said, the Sadar Hospital was upgraded to 100-bed in 1995 but the 70 employees were recruited under a development project on June 28, 1998, two days before expirty of the project period.

Some of the employees this correspondent talked to said they got salaries till May 2003, but irregularly.

Since June 2003 they are not getting salary as their appointment have not been transferred to the revenue budget.

They said employees recruited under same projects in Meherpur, Feni and Cox's Bazar hospitals are getting their salaries smoothly.