Government has announced that starting with the 2019/2020 academic year, postgraduate training for Doctors in Ghana will be free.
It was disclosed by the Minister of Health, Kweku Agyemang Manu in a Facebook post.
“On Thursday, 28th May, 2020, I joined the Vice -President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to launch the scholarships for postgraduate training of Doctors in Ghana in fulfilment of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s promise to make post-graduate medical education in Ghana free.
“In line with this, the school fees for the 918 residents and senior residents enrolled in the 2019/2020 academic year has been covered under this new arrangement with the Ghana Scholarships Secretariat.
“A total amount of GHS 6,885,000.00 (six million eight hundred and eighty-five thousand) Ghana cedis has been released to the College to offset more than half of the projected budget of 11 million Ghana cedis which the College required to achieve its mandate this year,” the post quoted the Vice President.
There has always been a mass exodus of medical professionals from Ghana into other countries to pursue postgraduate training programs and also seek greener pastures.
The State of the Ghanaian Economy Report for 2002 notes that 68.2 per cent of medical officers trained between 1993-2000 left the country.
In 2003, the then President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr. Jacob Plange-Rhule revealed that the country could only boast of 10,500, medical officers which meant Ghana lost close to 60% of its nursing staff, even though nursing schools all over the country train about 600 nurses a year.
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What about pharmacy and the other health workers? Are doctors the only health workers? Please don’t discriminate for we have feelings too.
Very true. I don’t understand why everything health is just about doctors, nurse and midwives.
Maybe, the other professions should leave the health sector for them to run it alone.
I believe that’s why our health situation isn’t really improving.
Does Ghana for you.our leaders are bias.
I BELIEVE A LOT OF PHARMACISTS IN GHANA WOULD DISAPPOINTED IN THIS CURRENT GOVERNMENT. THE PRESIDENT AND THE MINISTER’S BIASNESS TO DOCTORS IS TOTALLY SHOCKING.
Then speak up for your profession too. If you don’t speak you won’t be heard so don’t blame government and ministers. In America nurses advocated for better pay and now they are paid better so if you want to be considered speak up, be active, help the nation and make yourselves heard. Be relevant
Exactly, speak up and be heard.no blame games.
As if doctors are the only people working in the health sector. Let other professionals like physician assistants, pharmacist, nurses, Midwives and lab techs all stage a boycott and see if doctors alone will be relevant. Absolutely nonsense