A bill seeking to establish a scholarship program for deserving medical students is one step away from hurdling the Senate as the upper chamber approved the measure on 2nd reading on Tuesday, September 8.
The scholarship will be open to “deserving and qualified aspiring, new, and continuing medical students” – whose families are unable to send them to medical school. Scholars of the program will be required to serve in the public health system for as many years as they availed of the scholarship. This way, the government hopes to supply every town in the Philippines with at least one doctor, even as it provides students from low-income families an opportunity to enter the medical profession.
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