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Executive Director of policy think tank, IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe, has lauded the Health Minister�s decision to have District Assemblies pay salaries of doctors in their districts. Health Minister, Sherry Ayitey announced at a stakeholders forum that government is considering a proposal that will ensure that doctors working in the various districts would be paid by the assemblies, the move she explains, forms part of government�s decentralization policy. Mr. Cudjoe on The Big Issue said the move is in the right direction. ��there is too much government involvement in our lives.� According to him, government must not continue employing teachers, doctors, etc in Accra and be paying them. �I think that it will be the unraveling of the decentralization that we�ve been peaking at for a very long time,� he noted. The founder of IMANI, Ghana said it is important for government to deepen decentralization so successive governments will be free from the huge wage bills. �I support the government 100 percent on this one,� he said. But the Ghana Medical Association has vehemently rejected the proposal, saying it is �unthinkable�. According to the Association, the move cannot be sustained. Currently, doctors are paid by the central government.