Trainee doctors block city road for arrears, allowance hike

News Desk :: Several hundred trainee doctors block the road in front of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in the capital on Saturday demanding arrears and allowance hike. — Sony Ramany

Several hundred trainee doctors blocked the road in front of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in the capital on Saturday demanding arrears and allowance hike.

Trainee post-graduate and intern doctors said that the higher study institutes, including Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, did not pay their monthly allowance of Tk 20,000 for the last six months.

They also demand that the authorities should increase the allowance matching with inflation and price hike of essential commodities.

Zabir Ahamed, president of Postgraduate Private Trainee Doctors Association, a platform of the protesters, said that they had placed their demands several times to the authorities; but nobody took any effective measures to solve the issue.

He said that a doctor, who works for 14 hours or more every day, is given Tk 20,000 monthly very irregularly.

‘How can a doctor survive in this situation?’ he asked seeking the authorities’ interference.

Trainee doctors across the Bangladesh participated in the protest.