assignment of public health service physicians to certain counties

assignment of public health service physicians to certain counties Sec. 203. Section 329(a) of the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “The Secretary shall use his best efforts to provide, to each county certified by him to be without the services of a physician physically residing within such county, at least one physician in the Public Health Service, except for counties so sparsely populated as not to require such a physician. Such physicians shall be assigned so that each such county shall have a residing physician within one year from the date of enactment of this sentence. Within one year from the date of enactment of this sentence the Secretary shall report to the Congress with respect to his implementation of this section.”