President Maham pledges six months salary to Ghana Medical Trust Fund

President John Dramani Mahama has made a generous pledge to donate six months of his salary to support his newly launched initiative, the Ghana Medical Trust Fund.

The president’s move is aimed at improving and supporting access to quality healthcare in Ghana.  The Ghana Medical Trust Fund or Mahama Cares is a healthcare initiative that will cater for Ghanaians suffering from various chronic illnesses like cancer, kidney failure among others.

President Mahama made this pledge while he launched the initiative on Tuesday, April 29, 2025 the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC) in Accra. At the event, President Mahama recounted how his father had succumbed to prostate cancer in 2001 and later his mother suffered from hypertension-related complications in 2016. Adding the initiative is a policy priority and a personal mission.

He further called on individuals and private entities to support the Medical Trust Fund through corporate social responsibility.

“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 said.