Meet PM's promise or face agitation from Dec 17
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Association of Unemployed Diploma Nurses of Bangladesh yesterday threatened to launch tougher movement if Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's repeated assurance to develop nursing as a profession is not implemented by December 15.
"Head of the government expressed her eagerness to end deprivation against nurses and to increase their honour," said Aziza Parvin, president of the association.
But, the PM's assurance remained unfulfilled for over two years now, she added.
The association at a press conference in Dhaka Reporters Unity said it would launch movement from December 17 if the assurances remain unmet.
Hasina, at a nurse's programme on July 16, 2009, announced that the government would fill up the vacant posts and create 5,000 more posts for diploma nurses, a written statement of the association said.
Later on, PM made the similar announcement at health service related programmes including the Nurses' Conference this July, the association leaders said.
They also presented documents at the press conference that showed that the PMO on July 26 this year asked the secretaries of the health and family planning ministry and labor and employment generation ministry to take necessary steps regarding the PM's assurances.
The assurances included creation of 5,000 nursing posts, appointment to the vacant posts, upgradation of nurses, teaching nurses foreign languages including English and Arabic, and sending nurses abroad as skilled manpower.
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