The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Health Institutions to immediately commence investigation of discrimination in the recruitment of resident doctors by the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, in Calabar, Cross River State. The House also called for immediate suspension of the Chief Medical Director of the Medical Health Institutions, Professor Ikpeme Asanye Ikpeme by the Federal Ministry of Health, to ensure he does not interfere with the investigation to be conducted by the the ministry. The resolution of the House followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance, moved by Mr Iduma Igariwey. Speaking on the substance of the motion, Mr. Igariwey referenced media reports detailing how Professor Ikpeme allegedly rejected 17 newly graduated medical doctors posted to the institution by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria for one year mandatory housemanship. “We frown at the conduct of this highly placed federal officer that encourages brain drain in the health sector, and more importantly, further fractures the delicate ethnic fault lines of our union, leading to divisiveness, insecurity and instability.” The motion said.