Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto Monday refiled his “One Town, One Doctor” bill, a novel scholarship program in which government finances the schooling of one medical student from a town – on the condition that when he becomes a doctor, he will serve his town for four years.
Recto said the program addresses a key mandate of the Universal Health Care Act.
But sending more public doctors to rural areas—where latest data pegs an average one physician for every 33,000 inhabitants—is hobbled by a “range of disincentives” such as high cost of medical schooling, low pay, and absence of opportunities for further training, among others. “And while the doctor is doing his mandatory four-year community service, another bright young student from the same town starts medical schooling so that there will be a replacement after four years. So we create an unbroken chain,” Recto explained.
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