We participated in last week’s partial strike and have now joined the full strike that began today. At both Yekatit 12 and Menelik Hospitals, we have faced intimidation and threats from staff—including hospital administrators, senior doctors, and head nurses.
An "urgent" mandatory meeting has been called for tomorrow morning, where we anticipate being pressured to return to our hospitals under the false pretense of "guaranteed safety." We also expect academic threats to be used as coercion. Failure to attend this meeting has been explicitly linked to disciplinary consequences, further escalating the climate of fear.
This systematic intimidation undermines our rights and safety as interns. We urge immediate attention to these alarming developments.