Ghana Medical Association expresses concerns over proliferation of new medical schools

The Ghana Medical Association (GMA) has voiced concerns regarding the establishment of new medical schools by tertiary institutions across the country.

Frank Serebour, the government should prioritize the expansion of existing medical training facilities, instead of creating new institutions.

He stressed the importance of maintaining quality training and standards in the healthcare sector, expressing dissatisfaction with the proliferation of new medical schools.

“I am not happy and I think it is wrong for us to be creating new medical schools all over the place and I believe that the external teachers’ size is the way to go.

And that for me would ensure that standards are maintained, quality is ensured and even good numbers, and it is also easy and cheap and it’s better than you converting every regional hospital into a teaching hospital or medical school,” citinewsroom.com quoted the president.

To address these challenges, the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Bekwai Municipal Hospital to serve as a clinical training center for medical students.

This collaboration aims to alleviate the pressure on the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), which currently shoulders the burden of training medical students from KNUST.