The World - News from May 25, 1986
Bangladesh suspended allowances to newly graduated doctors in an effort to force them to end a strike that the government says has led to at least 150 deaths. It said allowances will be cut off during the doctors’ one-year mandatory training until further notice. About 2,400 junior doctors walked out April 12 to press demands for jobs in government hospitals. Nearly 1,600 others later walked out in sympathy, virtually paralyzing the country’s eight hospitals.
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