Government will no longer fund post graduate studies for medical doctors. Some doctors are protesting the decision, but the health ministry has justified it. Medical doctors who want to pursue further studies will pay at least 3,000 Ghana Cedis. Those in Accra are threatening a strike if government does not reverse the decision by the end of this month. “All over the world when doctors are undergoing specialist training the training is such that you work as well and provide service. You are rather paid. “Most importantly the notice came at a short notice and I think people are frustrated, people are confused and what we are calling on the government to do is to at least suspend these modalities. Otherwise we lay down our tools in solidarity with the prospective residents.” Dr. Ernest Yorke the Accra Secretary of the Ghana Medical Association told Joy News. But the Health Ministry says the aggrieved doctors should consult their employers to pay for their postgraduate training. “Sometime back there was enough funding but this time there is no funding. It means that it is now critical that you sit down with you to discuss the funding arrangements for that matter bonding, where you will go and so on. “So that it would be like you have finished and then when we are sending you to another place you don’t go,” Dr. Ebenezer Appiah-Denkyira head the Human Resource Unit of the ministry told Joy News. Source: Joy News/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana