The Administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, popularly known as Mahama Cares, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, has clarified that the Fund does not provide financial support for patients seeking medical treatment outside Ghana.
Speaking at the Government Accountability Series on Monday, May 11, she said the Fund has recently come under increasing pressure, with individuals tagging the institution on social media posts appealing for funding to seek treatment abroad.
She explained that the governing law that established the Fund restricts its mandate to supporting free treatment for non-communicable diseases within Ghana.
She stressed that the policy is also designed to ensure cost efficiency, arguing that funds used for treatment abroad could instead support many more patients locally.
“There is something that we keep getting. Many people want funding to go abroad. Let me announce here and now, we do not support any funding out of the borders of this country.
“That money that we spend for one patient to go to India for treatment, we can use that for about 20 patients in country. Anything beyond the borders as stipulated in the Act is beyond us,” she said.
