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House of Rep. passes bill that mandate medical and dental practitioners 5 years service before giving them license
The House of Representatives has passed for second reading, the Medical and Dental Practitioners Act (Amendment) Bill 2022, which seeks to make it compulsory for graduates in medical and dental fields to render services within Nigeria for five years before being granted a full licence.
Johnson been the Team lead of the debate on the bill, he noted that the amendment was "in order to make quality health services available to Nigerians considering the growing trend of the Nigeria population and the current emigration rate of the Nigerian-trained medical and dental practitioners abroad."
He said, " Nigeria currently has only 24,000 licensed medical doctors available in the country, less than 10 per cent of the number needed to meet the World Health Organization recommendation.”
"I now talk to myself and said, let us look at what is happening. I now noticed that the vacuum is that immediately after houseman-ship, we notice that most doctors, because of greener pastures there is a capital flight from Nigeria abroad to UK, America and all that. The Government has invested so much money in training these medical doctors.”
"To give back to society after training you, we are not saying you cannot go abroad to make money. If the government subsidised your tuition, the least we expect is that after your housemanship, before you are given full licence, at least you can give back to society within the period of five years. So after five years, you are free to go, at least you have given back to society.”
Source: The punch
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