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Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has refiled his “One Town, One Doctor” bill, a novel scholarship program in which government funds 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.

An Act Providing Medical Scholarship To Qualified Students In All Municipalities Establishing For This Purpose The One Town: One Doctor Scholarship Program, Appropriating Funds Therefor And For Other Purposes This bill seeks to achieve the presence of at least one (1) doctor per