President John Dramani Mahama has earmarked half of his yearly salary as president to support Ghana’s healthcare sector through the Ghana Medical Trust Fund.
His gesture seeks to contribute to improving the access to quality healthcare for patients battling chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
President Mahama made this known on Wednesday, April 29, during the launch of government’s Ghana Medical Trust Fund, also known as Mahama Cares.
The Mahama Cares initiative seeks to provide dedicated financial support to individuals suffering from chronic illnesses. The initiative is designed to improve accessibility of healthcare particularly for those facing financial barriers to treatment.
At the event held at the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in Accra on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, President Mahama framed the initiative as both a policy priority and a personal mission, recalling how his father succumbed to prostate cancer in 2001 and his mother to hypertension-related complications in 2016.
He also highlighted the plight of a staff member’s child requiring costly weekly dialysis for survival due to chronic kidney disease.
President John Dramani Mahama further underscored the need to support the health sector as he appealed to individuals and private entities to commit their corporate social responsibility to the Mahama Cares initiative.
“I want to encourage corporate Ghana, businesses, the mines, the banks, and all the other companies that the Ghana Medical Trust Fund is coming to your clients who save their money in your banks or do business with you. Some of them are even your own staff.
“So, as part of your Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), if you give anything, consider that you are giving to your own staff or customers. So, I would like to encourage all corporations in Ghana, both private and public, to at the end of the year, donate some portion of their annual CSR to Ghana Medical Fund because it is going to do a lot of good to the country,” he stated.
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— Albert Nat HYDE (@1BongoIdeas) April 29, 2025
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Four months into his term, President Mahama has not taken a salary and has pledged to donate his first six months’ salary to the Ghana Medical Trust Fund.
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— Albert Nat HYDE (@1BongoIdeas) April 29, 2025
