Physiotherapy students' memo to PM today

27 June 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Bangladesh Physiotherapy Students' Union (BPSU) will march towards the Prime Minister's Office at 12:00 noon today to submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as part of their agitation programmes, says a press release. More than 200 physiotherapy students have been staging hunger strike from June 21 to press their demand for a Bangladesh College of Psychotherapy. On the 8th consecutive day of the hunger strike, a group of health officials of the ministry and directorate general of health services (DGHS) met the protesters on behalf of the health minister at 2:00pm at the Central Shaheed Minar and requested them to call off their hunger strike. Dr Khandaker Mohammad Shefayeatullah, director (medical education) of DGHS, and Ahsanul Haque Khan Swapan, deputy chief engineer (health wing) of architecture department, talked to the students. But they did not assure the students of establishing a separate college of physiotherapy. Meanwhile, around 70 students fell sick during the last seven days of hunger strike and many of them are receiving treatment at different city hospitals.