LUTH interns protest non-payment of 7 months salaries
By Chioma Obinna LAGOS — INTERNS at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, Idi-Araba, Lagos, yesterday, protested non-payment of seven months salaries, disrupting healthcare services. The protesting professionals comprising doctors, pharmacists and others, vowed that they would not return to work until arrears of salaries were paid in full. However, LUTH management attributed the development to implementation of the newly introduced centralised Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System, IPPIS. The aggrieved interns lamented that some of them had not received any salary since they began their internship in January, this year. 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. One of them, a pharmacist, told Vanguard that many of them were yet...