Thanks Rufai for your advocacy
Following the concerns raised on Thursday morning about the welfare of interns at OAUTHC, the hospital management has now begun paying part of the outstanding stipends owed to interns.
Payments were reportedly made today to some interns, with arrears being cleared according to their respective batches. While this is a step in the right direction, many interns are still awaiting full payment of what is owed to them.
Interns continue to hope that the management of OAUTHC will ensure complete settlement of all outstanding arrears as soon as possible, so that the welfare and motivation of young healthcare professionals are adequately protected.
We respectfully seek your intervention and public advocacy concerning the prolonged non-payment of interns working at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex (OAUTHC).
For the past eleven months, interns have rendered uninterrupted clinical services at OAUTHC. However, only six months’ salary has been paid, and even that was not in full. To date, our December salary remains unpaid, alongside several months of outstanding arrears.
Despite this situation, interns are still being mandated to report for duty. Although an industrial action is currently ongoing, interns have been specifically instructed to continue working without pay. Repeated pleas, formal complaints, and peaceful protests have yielded no meaningful resolution. The consistent explanation given by hospital management is that payment has not been released from Abuja.
This explanation, however, is misleading. Unlike other staff whose salaries are federally funded, interns’ remuneration is paid directly by the hospital management, not from Abuja. Notably, other hospital staff have continued to receive their salaries, while interns remain unpaid.
This situation has placed immense financial, emotional, and psychological strain on young healthcare professionals who are expected to work under demanding conditions without compensation. It raises serious concerns about labour rights, workplace ethics, and the welfare of medical interns in Nigeria.
We humbly appeal to Arise TV investigate this matter and lend its voice to our plight, so that the appropriate authorities can be held accountable and justice can be served.
Thank you for your commitment to truth, accountability, and the protection of vulnerable workers.
Mayowa
@Healthintern22@oauthcofficial According to the last memo released and signed by Mrs Owotade we were told that when they return from the strike we will get our money shey the strike has not ended ni? @SaharaReporters@oauthcofficial please I need money to travel back home 😭😭🙏
Today makes it Day 10 of interns publicly speaking up.
It has been over a week since @oauthcofficial interns began voicing concerns about unpaid salaries and accumulated arrears. Within those days, the management has released 2 memos,
A thread 👇🏼 (walk with me)
Why do we have to go through this at the prime of our careers? We graduated with joy, freshly inducted, full of hope and eager to serve humanity. We stepped into internship with passion and purpose, only for OAUTHC to slowly drain that passion through months of unpaid salaries...
E don reach this stage😔😩
Doctor John Okeniyi, @JAOOKENIYI I know you're a good man and loving father. Have mercy on your interns please 🙏🏻. Ask yourself this,does your interns deserve this treatment and negligence?😭
Yesterday was another chaotic day for OAUTHC interns.
We started the day in total uncertainty, not knowing what would happen.
Then, just minutes to noon, @oauthcofficial paid 95.03% of Dec. salary, out of 4 months of unpaid salaries & about 6 months of arrears.
A Thread👇🏼
Medical interns in some federal hospitals like @oauthcofficial in Nigeria are currently owed several months of salaries and arrears, yet are still expected to work full-time under intense pressure.
This is not just unfair, it’s unsafe and inhumane.
Interns deserve dignity.