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Though it has been established that the inability of Universities to admit more students is based on the unavailability of facilities to accommodate them, Deputy Propaganda Secretary for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Solomon Nkansah thinks otherwise, especially regarding health institutions. Solomon Nkansah believes there is an attempt by doctors to control the profession and dictate to any government in power at the Ghana Medical School (GMS). The Medical School in Cape Coast, this year, according to a report, admitted only 45 students out of the numerous students who applied for admission. Reacting to the trend of admission into the Ghana Medical School on Okay fm, he said there should be a way to resolve the shortage of medical doctors in the country; in that the government should find means to compel the director of the GMS to admit more students. He strongly believed the low intake of medical students to practice medicine is a ploy by the medical doctors to have an upper hand over the profession. ��..the reason why Ghana Medical School admission is difficult to attain is due to the fact that they feel that they are a pampered society because they are few in the system�..if they allow government to admit more students, they feel they can no longer hold the government to ransom and that their braggart dynasty will come to an end,� he fumed. He added that the era where the delay of night allowances of doctors can trigger strike action should be a thing of the past with the influx of more doctors in the country. �It is about time the Ghana Medical School admits more students and also create room for brilliant students but needy students�This will curtail the strike issue in the country since they understand the hardship more than the students who have not experienced extreme poverty or hardship�, he opined. He was therefore of the conviction that the doctors want to control the profession among themselves and their generations which is why few and rich students are admitted; denying larger number of students equal opportunity to join the medical schools.