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18 June 2009, 18:00 PM

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Our Corrspondent, Moulvibazar

Bangladesh Diploma Medical Association forms a human chain in Moulvibazar town yesterday to press home the demand for renaming their post. Photo: STAR

Members of the Bangladesh Diploma Medical Association (BDMA) Moulvibazar district unit yesterday formed a human chain at Chawmuhana Square of the town to press their 5-point demand. Diploma physicians working at different union health centres, family welfare centres and upazila health complexes of the district participated in the programme. The BDMA members later handed over a memorandum to the Prime Minister through the Deputy Commissioner at his office. The diploma physicians earlier on Wednesday threatened to go on 'fast unto death' from June 22 at Muktangan in Dhaka if the Directorate of Health did not implement the government order to change the official designation of medical assistants. Leaders of the BDMA said on completion of their academic course they are known as medical assistants. In 1996, the government in an official order through gazette notification renamed this post as 'Sub-Assistant Community Medical Officer'. But the Directorate of Health is not implementing the order.