The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to immediately suspend the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital’s Chief Medical Director, Prof Ikpeme Ikpeme, over allegations of ethnic discrimination in the recruitment of resident doctors at the federal tertiary health institution. Moving the motion, Igariwey cited media reports alleging that Prof Ikpeme rejected 17 newly graduated medical doctors posted to UCTH by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria for their mandatory one-year housemanship. He added that despite interventions by the National Association of Resident Doctors, UCTH chapter, and the Nigerian Medical Association, Cross River State branch, the CMD allegedly refused to reverse his decision. “Prof Ikpeme has stood his ground to reject the list on account of the high number of Igbo applicants therein,” Igariwey said. Igariwey further expressed concern that the development was worsening the crisis in Nigeria’s already overstretched health sector.