BMC restoration Movement: Health of hunger strike participants deteriorates

QUETTA: Five people, including three students, health deteriorated during the ongoing hunger strike to death in support of their demands from the platform of ‘Bolan Medical College Restoration Movement’ in Quetta – the capital of Pakistan occupied Balochistan.

According to details, Two employees of BMC and three students including Syed Basit Shah and Saifullah, Mushtaq Ahmed, Dr Tariq and Balach Qadir, were rushed to a hospital as their condition become worse on the fourth day of hunger strike until death.

After receiving medical treatment at the hospital, some of men again joined the sit-in protest at Zarghoon Road and went on hunger strike again. It should be noted that 22 college employees and students of Bolan Medical College are on hunger strike till death. Apart from the starving employees and students, the employees and students of ‘Tehreek-e-Bahali Bolan Medical College’ are also among the protesters.

The protesters are adamant that their strike would not end until the University Act 2017 was amended.

Government officials have previously held talks with the students on a number of occasion and assured them to address their demands but to date the University Act has not been amended. The protesters say that after BMC College was given the status of a university, the jobs of all the employees are at stake under the University Act.

Baloch student leader Dr Mahrang Baloch said on Monday that some of the participants of the strike have at ICU as their health has worsen and despite requests from other fellow students to end their strike, the Drs have refused to eat.

The student leaders and organisers of the hunger strike have warned the current government of Balochistan that they [government] will be held responsible for any unpleasant situation if their demands are not meet and their colleagues lose their lives.