MahamaCares Administrator Seeks Mining Sector Partnership
The Administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund, also known as MahamaCares, Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, has called for a strategic partnership between the mining sector and the Fund to strengthen access to critical healthcare.
Speaking at the National Mining Dialogue 2026, she said such a partnership would shift mining companies from traditional CSR to investments that directly save lives in their host communities.
“At 2:00 AM, money cannot buy time. In a medical emergency, your wealth does not save you; the infrastructure nearest to you does,” she said.
She noted that Ghana faces critical shortages in specialised medical equipment and specialists, a gap that leaves many mining communities vulnerable.
Ms Darko-Opoku urged mining firms to partner with the MahamaCares Fund to equip hospitals, train specialists and bring life-saving healthcare closer to the people.
She said Ghana’s greatest resource is not the gold beneath its soil, but the Ghanaian, and that must reflect in how mining companies define their social licence to operate.
“We didn’t just extract gold from your soil. We built the Cancer Centre that saved your mother. We installed the Cath Lab that saved your chief,” she said, describing the kind of legacy the industry should aspire to leave.
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