The Administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, Adwoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, has announced that the nationwide Patient Support Programme under the MahamaCares Initiative will officially roll out in June 2026, following a successful pilot phase involving fifty patients earlier this year. Speaking at the Government Accountability Series at the Presidency on Monday, May 11, she said the initiative was designed to ensure that no Ghanaian is denied specialised healthcare because of financial hardship.
According to Mrs Darko-Opoku, over GHS 4.8 million has already been spent on pilot beneficiaries who received support for heart surgeries, brain surgeries, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and orthopaedic procedures. The beneficiaries, aged between six months and eighty-five years, were treated across eleven hospitals nationwide.
“The nationwide patient support program officially rolls out in June 2026,” Mrs Darko-Opoku stated. “These beneficiaries, drawn from across the country, received support for heart surgeries, brain surgeries, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and orthopaedic surgeries.”
She explained that the Board of Trustees had approved an initial benefits package focused on cancers, including breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, and childhood cancers such as leukaemia and lymphoma. Additional disease conditions are expected to be added to the package before the end of the year.
To qualify for support under the Trust Fund, applicants must be Ghanaian citizens, active NHIS card holders, and diagnosed with conditions approved under the scheme. Mrs Darko-Opoku added that applications would be processed digitally through specialist clinicians at enlisted hospitals rather than through direct walk-ins at the Secretariat.