Trainee dentists’ protest

Published July 29, 2017

KARACHI: A protest demonstration of dentist house officers of the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) for ‘fair’ pay and against alleged discriminatory attitude of the DUHS administration with BDS graduates continued here on Friday.

The trainee officers staged a sit-in at the Dow Medical College’s main campus throughout the day. The BDS graduates of the Dow Dental College, Dow International Dental College and Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan Institute of Oral Health Sciences have been protesting for past six days for fair pay equal to other BDS graduates of Sindh.

Published in Dawn, July 29th, 2017

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