The Ministry of Health has announced that nearly 500 nurses have been enrolled under the MahamaCares specialised training programme to deliver advanced medical care.
The Health Ministry, in a news article, disclosed, “The Mahama Care Initiative has admitted nearly 500 nurses into specialised programmes, strengthening the country’s ability to deliver advanced medical care.
At a joint matriculation ceremony for the 2025/2026 academic year, Health Minister Kwabena Mintah Akandoh described the move as a strategic effort to equip the health system with critical skills in Emergency, Critical Care, Cardiology, Nephrology, Endocrinology, and Oncology Nursing.
The programme is being implemented through expanded training across selected institutions.
He urged the students to demonstrate professionalism and excellence, stressing their role in improving access to quality specialist care nationwide.
Deputy Health Minister Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah pointed to the growing burden of non-communicable diseases, including diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and cancer, driven by lifestyle factors and late detection.
She called for intensified prevention, early screening, and stronger primary healthcare systems to ease pressure on critical care services.
Principal of the School of Peri-Operative and Critical Care Nursing, Mrs. Faustina Excel Adipa, encouraged the students to remain disciplined and committed, describing the training as a long-term investment in strengthening Ghana’s healthcare delivery”.
In related news, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, the Administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, popularly known as MahamaCares, has revealed some non-communicable diseases supported by the fund.
The Minister of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, who shared an update on the administrator media briefing on X, revealed that additional disease conditions will be included in the benefits package by the end of the year.
In his post, Felix Kwakye Ofosu wrote, “Here are the non-communicable diseases whose treatment is currently supported by the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (Mahama Cares).
Breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, and childhood cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma, soft tissue sarcomas, retinoblastoma, and nephroblastoma.
Additional disease conditions will be included in the benefits package by the end of the year”.
Also, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku has stated that the MahhamaCares will not support patients seeking medical treatment outside Ghana.
She revealed that the Mahama Cares fund has recently come under increasing pressure, with persons appealing for funding to seek treatment abroad.
Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku disclosed that the governing law that established the Fund restricts its mandate to supporting free treatment for non-communicable diseases in Ghana.
Speaking at the Government Accountability Series on Monday, May 11, she said, “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 the country. Anything beyond the borders as stipulated in the Act is beyond us,” she said.
Meanwhile, for one to benefit from support under the Trust Fund, an applicant must meet three basic eligibility requirements.
The applicant must be a Ghanaian citizen, an active NHIS card bearer, and must have a medical condition that falls within the approved conditions supported under the Fund.
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