The healthcare at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital faces serious trouble as the Rajshahi Nursing College students went on indefinite strike on Monday.
The nursing students are used to work for 6 hours daily for the hospital as part of their academic activities.
The hospital sources say about 350 trainee nurses work at the hospital daily.
The patients' people complain that they are not getting adequate healthcare due to the shortage of nurses.
A father of a patient at the hospital's ward number 13, Mahmudul Hasan, told New Age on Thursday morning that he called for help for injecting a saline in his patient's body according to the doctor's prescription, but no nurse came for help.
The RMCH director brigadier Abdus Sabur brushed aside the allegations and said that senior nurses were on duty and the present situation was not hampering healthcare.
He, however, did not make any remark when he Mahmudul Hasan's comment was referred.
The nursing students were staging demonstrations demanding hike in their monthly stipend and several other demands, including solution to teacher, library, and computer laboratory crisis.
The strikers complained that the courses were upgraded to bachelor's degree from diploma degree in 2007, but the monthly stipend was not increased.
They also said the monthly allowance was Tk 850 for about last nineteen years.
They demanded Tk 3,000 minimum stipend.
The students said it became tough for them to cope with the market price hike with the terrible stipend.
Rajshahi Nursing College principal Sadeka Khatun accepted the complaints and said they had nothing to do for the college students as these problems prevailed in all nursing colleges in the country.
Responding to a question whether the college authorities informed the health and education ministry about the students' demands, Sadeka Khatun said they were yet to take steps as the higher authorities could get the information through media.
Source : New Age
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