Dhaka, June 23 -- A seven-member group of protesting students from Dhaka Medical College is headed to the Secretariat to meet Nur Jahan Begum, the adviser to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. The principal of Dhaka Medical College will also accompany them.

Dhaka Medical College student Touhidul Abedin Tanvir said on Monday that five male and two female students from the medical college will go to the ministry on Monday.

"Our students wanted the adviser to come and see the condition of our hostels, or we could meet her and present an explanation of the conditions we face. The ministry has asked me to go through our principal sir. That is why a team of us is going there."

Touhidul said that they will announce a decision on their...