INTERNS at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, yesterday, protested non-payment of seven months salaries, disrupting healthcare services.
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The protesting professionals comprising doctors, pharmacists and others, vowed that they would not return to work until arrears of salaries were paid in full.
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However, LUTH management attributed the development to implementation of the newly introduced centralised Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS.
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The aggrieved interns lamented that some of them had not received any salary since they began their internship in January, this year.
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Most of the protesters who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of victimisation, said though they had lodged several complaints through their association, they were yet to get any response from the hospital's management and the Federal Government on when their salaries would be paid.
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One of them, a pharmacist, told Vanguard that many of them were yet to be captured by the IPPIS which the Federal Government introduced for. payment of its staff's salaries last year.
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Their spokesperson said: "We will not go back to work until every one of us has been paid to the last kobo. We work day and night in this hospital without complain, but the only thing government knows is strike. We work like slaves, yet we are still struggling to feed.