Sunamganj Medical College students on Wednesday withdrew their protest programmes following assurances from the authorities that their two-point demand, including opening of the college hospital, would be met by December this year.
They announced withdrawal of the programmes at a press conference held on the college campus in the morning, eight days after boycotting the academic as well as administrative activities.
After the press conference, the students unlocked the academic and administrative buildings on the campus and said that they would also return to the classes soon.
The student representatives said that the medical college authorities and health department officials on Tuesday assured them of meeting their two demands.
They said that the authorities assured them of posting three specialist doctors at Sunamganj Sadar Hospital to provide the medical students with clinical classes six days a week until opening of the college hospital.
The authorities also assured the students of providing the required numbers of buses for students鈥� transport and instructed the department officials concerned to complete the infrastructural construction work quickly to open the college hospital, the students said.
The SMC fourth-year students, Piyas Chandra Das, and Harun-Or Rashid and third-year student Mownata Nath Mishi read out written scripts at the press conference on behalf of the protesting students.
Nayeem, a student representative, told 抖阴精品 in the afternoon that they sought time for one or two more days to attend classes since many of their fellows were still sick.
Earlier on April 15, the SMC students started their movement on the campus boycotting academic activities to press home their two-point demand that also included setting up a ward to ensure regular clinical classes as soon as possible.
Later on Sunday afternoon, they announced that they would go for a complete shutdown on the campus after an army team allegedly charged batons on them to disperse them from the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway, leaving around 53 of the protesters injured, the students claimed.
Academic activities of the newly established SMC started temporarily at Shantiganj Upazila Health Complex in the district on September 12, 2021.
The college was shifted later on its permanent campus in the Madanpur area under the Shantiganj upazila on November 5, 2023.
At present, 280 students are studying in five batches of the college, the official sources said.
