There is a bill that has passed through its second reading at the House of Representatives. It is generating an uproar within medical circles and outside it. It is a bill that wants medical and dental practitioners in Nigeria to practice for a minimum of five years before being granted a full licence by the Medical and Dental Council. The aim of the bill, according to the sponsor, Mr Abiodun Ganiyu Johnson, a member representing Oshodi/Isolo Federal Constituency of Lagos State is to halt brain drain in the medical field.
There is a bill that has passed through its second reading at the House of Representatives. It is generating an uproar within medical circles and outside it. It is a bill that wants medical and dental practitioners in Nigeria to practice for a minimum of five years before being granted a full licence by the Medical and Dental Council.There is a bill that has passed through its second reading at the House of Representatives. It is generating an uproar within medical circles and outside it.
So on the surface Mr Johnson’s proposed bill may seem like a patriotic bill to solve a nagging problem. It is not because when subjected to serious scrutiny it looks more harmful than helpful. The bill seems to be contradictory and illogical. It seems that after graduation the medical doctor is expected to practise medicine for five years without a licence since he will only get the licence at the end of five years.
Fifthly, why should the bill focus attention only on medical doctors? Other professionals such as teachers, engineers and technologists are also migrating abroad. You do not create a law to affect only one group of workers when the prevailing situation affects more than one group. Any law that is tailor-made for and targeted at one group, profession or institution clearly lacks the ingredient of a good law: universality of application.
There is also the issue of security of life and property. Some highly placed persons have been kidnapped or killed in parts of the country. If we make life more secure and make the pastures greener here many of those who are japa-ing will be happy to return here and make their contributions to the development of their fatherland.
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