Barishal, Nov. 27 -- Nurses in Barishal staged demonstration on Thursday to press home their eight-point demand including the formation of a National Nursing Commission.

They also observed a sit-in programme in the morning wearing black badges at 11am in front of the administrative building of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital, protesting the inclusion of the independent Nursing and Midwifery Directorate under a different department.

Barishal district unit of the Bangladesh Nurses Association (BNA) organised the programme.

The protesters, including nurses and midwives, also brought out a procession on the hospital premises carrying banners, festoons and chanting various slogans.

Speakers at the sit-in said the nursing and midwife...