Dhaka, March 10 -- As many as 17 organisations representing medical students, doctors and intern doctors have announced a protest where they will burn "replica" certificates near the Raju Sculpture on the Dhaka University campus to push for a five-point list of demands.

They started to collect mass signatures at 10am on Monday as part of the programme.

The burning of the "replica" certificates was scheduled to start around 11:30am, said Nurunnabi, general secretary of the Post Graduate Private Trainee Doctors Association.

Different doctors' associations and medical students held public hearings virtually and made the decision to stage the programme, he told bdnews24.com.

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