Protesters under the banner of the Postgraduate Private Trainee Doctors Association began demonstrating outside the National Museum in Dhaka's Shahbagh at 11 am on Monday. In June, at least 500 physicians attending BSMMU postgraduate residency programmes, who are not on the government payroll and are considered private physicians, launched a demonstration for increased allowances, timely payments and back pay. The demonstrating doctors sought the prime minister’s intervention to settle the standoff with the authorities over their pay. On Sunday, the government decided to raise the monthly allowance for postgraduate doctors at BSMMU to Tk 25,000. Earlier this month, the demonstrating doctors had threatened an indefinite work stoppage from Jul 8 over the “shocking” state of their allowances.

Source: bd News24 July 18, 2023 00:17 UTC