A total amount of GH₵6,102,737.80 has been presented to the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, MahamaCares, generated from six months of President John Dramani Mahama’s salary, salary contributions from political appointees, and deductions from officials who failed to meet the asset declaration deadline.
The formal presentation was made on Monday at Jubilee House, where the Deputy Chief of Staff (Administration), Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, handed over the proceeds on behalf of the Office of the President.
The Controller and Accountant-General has already transferred the full amount to the trust.
President Mahama launched MahamaCares on 29 April 2025 to plug a gap in Ghana’s healthcare financing.
The fund covers treatment costs for non-communicable diseases not fully provided for under the National Health Insurance Scheme, including cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney failure requiring dialysis, stroke, diabetes, hypertension, and sickle cell disease.
It requires approximately three billion Ghana cedis annually over its first three years.
The need is not abstract, as non-communicable diseases now account for 45 percent of all deaths in Ghana, according to the World Health Organisation. One health facility alone recorded five thousand new diabetes referrals in the first half of 2025.
Nana Oye Bampoe Addo stated that the salary donations had not come without cost to those who made them.
“These salary donations came with real sacrifices. Bills that had to wait. Plans that had to be deferred. Commitments that had to be renegotiated. We knew the cost, and we paid it anyway,” she said.
She said every Cedi transferred would reach someone in desperate need.
It will fund a cancer patient’s next round of chemotherapy. It will pay for a dialysis session for someone whose family has run out of options,” she said.
The Deputy Chief of Staff said the fund had already commenced changing lives of Ghanaians.
“President has turned tears of sadness into tears of joy and gratitude and has saved a life,” she said.
Collections are not yet finished. Appointees who missed the asset declaration deadline remain subject to further deductions, and those proceeds will also go to the fund.
“We will still be collecting more money,” Nana Oye Bampoe Addo said.
She framed the entire exercise as the Reset Agenda made concrete, arguing that public office carries an obligation to give. “Leadership is not a title, it is a disposition,” she said.
She ended with a call to Ghanaians to support the fund, saying, ” This is a passionate appeal from political appointees to each and every Ghanaian. We know you will hear, you will dig deep in your pockets and contribute so that more lives will also be saved.”
Richard Aniagyei, ISD
