 A bill to prevent Nigerian trained medical or dental practitioners from being granted full licenses until they have worked for a minimum of five years in the country has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. While leading the debate on the general principle of the bill, the sponsor, Honorable Ghanu Johnson, says the bill seeks to address the high numbers of cases of Nigerian trained medical doctors leaving the country for greener pastures and its implications on the quality of health services in the country. Plus TV manual, Ehejine completes the report. With Nigerian's healthcare system plagued by a massive brain drain with the mass incidents of medical doctors and auto skilled workers, the House of Representatives passed full second reading a bill to stem divorce and tide. Honorable Ghanu Johnson will raise the motion as press concern that it is only fair for medical practitioners who enjoyed taxpayers subsidies on the training located locally to give back to society by working for a minimum of five years in the country before exporting their skills abroad. Yes, you are not saying you cannot go abroad to make your money, but if the government has subsidized your tuition, okay, I mean to the tune of 40 to 150,000, the least we can get from you is that after your expansion, before you are giving full license, before you are giving full license, it's, yes, before you are giving full license, at least you can give back to the society within a period of five years. While acknowledging the negative effects, medical brain drain is having on the healthcare sector also raised some concerns as imposing such restrictions on the doctors will amount to interfering with the free will of intended medical practitioners to choose where to practice. What is very expensive but here in Nigeria, the government is investing so much money and at a subsidized rate. So this bill is timely. I urge my colleagues to support this bill. In fact, at the public hearing level, I will make an input personally. The issue we're trying to cure is the brain drain. And that in itself, in my own opinion, Mr. Speaker, I think we're trying to catch 22 situations that we're in now as a country. Do we try to restrict these people and impinge on their own fundamental human rights or do we start to provide for the resources that we need to apportion more resources to the medical profession? Before calling for a voice and vote on the proposed bill, the speaker, Femig Bajabiamila, informed lawmakers on section 45, subsection 1 of the constitution, which has a provision for setting aside the fundamental right of any individual for the sake of the greater good. To deviate from fundamental human rights under certain conditions. If you have your constitution, go to 45.1. And one of those conditions is where it concerns public health. It's specifically written there, public health, 45.1. So if the government, we feel that to save God, public health, this restriction should be put, then we have not violated anybody's fundamental human rights. The bill was passed and read the second time before it was referred to the House Committee on Healthcare Services for further legislative action.