DOT Desk: [2] Students of a private nursing institute in Kushtia staged a human chain to protest the demand of money to allow their internships, reports The Daily Star.
[3] While protesting yesterday, students of Gurukul Nursing Institute blocked the office of the Kushtia General Hospital supervisor, our local correspondent reports.
[4] Laboni Khatun, the institute’s student governor, said nursing courses are being taught at their institution since 2015. Since then, the students have been continuously doing practical training at the 250-bed Kushtia General Hospital. But, its current Superintendent Dr MA Momen suddenly stopped it, she said.
[5] When she (Laboni) spoke to the superintendent about this, he asked her to get permission from the Health Department for the internship.