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Mahama’s Medical Trust Fund Marks Bold Health Reform Era

April 30, 2025
Silas Kafui Assemby Silas Kafui Assem
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Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Health, Mahama

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

In a decisive move hailed by health professionals, President John Dramani Mahama has launched the Ghana Medical Trust Fund under the Mahama Cares Initiative, a policy designed to confront the growing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that have long fallen outside the coverage of Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, a frontline medical practitioner, has described the fund as a sensitive and timely response to the country’s evolving health patterns, arguing that “history will remember President Mahama” kindly for this intervention.

“Over the years, the National health insurance scheme (NHIS) has tilted towards primary healthcare, universal health coverage i.e. provision of essential drugs for treatment of common illnesses, disease prevention, maternal and child health and family planning, health education and health promotion etc.

“NHIS largely focused on common illnesses like malaria, common respiratory illnesses and others”

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

According to Dr. Ayeh, the NHIS, while useful in its current form, has been largely restricted to primary healthcare services. These include treatment for malaria, respiratory infections, maternal and child health, and family planning.

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He explained that while these remain critical, they do not reflect the more urgent, life-threatening illnesses now claiming the lives of thousands of Ghanaians each year.

In his view, the system has failed to evolve alongside the rise of conditions like diabetes, hypertension, renal failure, cancers, and cardiovascular disease, the ailments which have become the primary contributors to mortality in Ghana today.

Dr. Sammy Ayeh
Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

A Financing Shift

Dr. Ayeh emphasized that the changing health landscape, driven largely by lifestyle habits, has left many Ghanaians without affordable avenues for diagnosis and treatment. 

He noted that non-communicable diseases now account for 43 percent of national mortality, a staggering figure that underscores the urgency for policy innovation.

“Our current financing of healthcare has not been able to significantly include recent health trends typically comprising of essential hypertension, diabetes, complex respiratory illnesses, cancers, terminal cardiovascular and renal diseases”

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

These conditions, he argued, are often too costly for the average Ghanaian to manage, citing an annual average cost of GHS 53,000 per patient. Without financial support, many are left with what he described as “a death sentence.”

The Lifeline Initiative

Through the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, the Mahama administration seeks to correct this historical oversight. 

By providing support for the treatment of cancers through surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, as well as care for terminal kidney and heart diseases, the initiative is expected to become a major pillar in the country’s healthcare system.

“The Mahama Cares Initiative has come in handy to provide necessary support in that regard”

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

Dr. Ayeh recounted countless cases where well-off individuals were financially destroyed by the cost of managing NCDs. The Ghana Medical Trust Fund, he believes, has arrived at a moment when the nation needed it most.

Dr. Sammy Ayeh
Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

Model for Longevity

With the Mahama Cares Initiative now in motion, Ghana is poised to begin a new chapter in health financing, one that places human lives above financial constraints.

The fund is expected to give citizens equitable access to treatments that were previously reserved only for the wealthy, significantly improving life expectancy and quality of life.

“The Ghana Medical Trust Fund has come to stay, it has come to fund the longevity of Ghanaians. Thank you to President Mahama”

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

Dr. Ayeh was confident that this intervention would not only save lives but reshape how healthcare is planned and executed in the country. 

By prioritizing the diseases that pose the most serious threat to national well-being, the initiative aligns with President Mahama’s broader vision of people-centered governance and social protection.

“As a professional, I have seen first-hand well-to-do, affluent people suddenly become paupers in just a few years after having to fund renal and cardiovascular illness. The need for funding support has come at the right time and I commend President Mahama for this initiative, posterity will be kind to him”

Dr. Sammy Ayeh, Medical Practitioner

With support from professionals like Dr. Ayeh and the broader medical community, the Ghana Medical Trust Fund signals a policy shift that centers modern realities, corrects past omissions, and provides new hope to thousands.

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Tags: Dr. Sammy AyehGhana Medical Trust FundHealthMahama CaresNHISnon-communicable diseases (NCDs)President John Dramani Mahama
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