The government has announced to spend ¢11million to fully fund the postgraduate training of 918 Ghanaian medical doctors in the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the 2019/2020 academic year.
A total amount of GHC 6,885,000 (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 GHS which the College required to achieve its mandate this year.
Launching the government’s scholarship scheme for postgraduate training of Ghanaian medical doctors in the Jubilee House, Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia said it is a fulfillment of a promise made by President Akufo-Addo in 2016.
Under the scholarship scheme, the tuition fees of 918 residents and senior residents enrolled by the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the 2019/2020 academic year, will be fully paid for by the government.
The College has since produced 565 specialist physicians and 647 specialist surgeons – a total of 1 212 as at the end of 2019.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Kofi Atakora
