After four hours, health workers under a government project unlocked all the gates of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) around 7:30pm tonight after a meeting with health and police offials.

They also postponed their hunger strike for tonight and will announce new programmes tomorrow, Abdur Rahman, one of participants said.

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Health workers lock DGHS gates demanding arrears, permanent jobs

Earlier, they locked all entrance gates of DGHS at Mohakhali around 3:30pm to press home their demands arrears payments and making their jobs permanent.

As a result, officials and staffers have been confined inside the building, officials and the protesting health workers said.

The health workers, appointed under the Covid-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness (ERPP) Project, have been staging demonstration at DGHS from Sunday.

They staged a sit in programme on Sunday, and began a hunger strike from Monday.