According to the Scholarship Secretariat, Ghanaian medical students studying in Ukraine must provide evidence of active enrollment to receive fee payments.
Some students have raised concerns about facing the risk of expulsion due to the government’s failure to pay their fees since 2021.
Richard Gyamfi, the Head of International Relations for the Scholarship Secretariat, stated that the students have been informed to submit proof for payment. However, the students argue that they have already submitted the necessary information, but the Secretariat has disregarded it.
“We have asked the students to provide documents that can provide proof that they are students and still in education because when we compiled the list of beneficiaries, one of their own came to tell us that most of the names on the list are not in school. Some decided to go to Germany while others went to Hungary, so we said instead of making a blanket payment, they should prove to us that they are still in school because the scholarships are renewed yearly.”
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A spokesperson representing the affected students mentioned that numerous letters sent to both the Secretariat and the Ghanaian Embassy have gone unanswered.
“I have personally sent an email to him [Head of International Relations for the Scholarship Secretariat] and he replied and told me that I should never send an email to him again because he is not responsible for the students.
“I pleaded with him and told him that my situation is critical and it is true that it is not all the 25 of us that are still studying in Ukraine but those that are in a critical situation and they asked that we provide evidence that we were still studying in Ukraine, we did that but those that they have paid are only people who are politically linked.
