Nigeria’s doctors furious over plans for five years of mandatory service
by Sunday Orji in Abuja from World news | The Guardian on (#6BV2Y)
MPs back new bill for medical graduates, designed to limit brain drain to countries including the UK and US
A new bill to impose five years' mandatory service on Nigeria's medical graduates in an effort to stop the exodus of doctors to the UK and the US has been attacked as obnoxious".
The bill, which could be put to a public hearing in the next few days, passed its second reading in the Nigerian parliament's lower house last month.
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