The Ranking Member on the Health Committee of Parliament, Dr , has labeled the proposed Ghana Medical Care Trust Fund, also known as the "Mahama Cares" Trust Fund, a potential breeding ground for fraud.
During parliamentary discussions on the 2025 Budget Statement on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, Dr Afriye criticised the purpose of the trust, warning that the fund, intended to support patients battling Non-Communicable diseases (NCDs) like cancer, kidney failure, heart conditions, liver disease, and high blood pressure, could overlap with existing healthcare structures, opening the door to mismanagement. "Mr Speaker, you cannot have a medical trust fund that is going to duplicate the existing institutional structures, their roles and their allocation.
We have departments of Non-Communicable Diseases, so if you are going to say this is going to take care of lymphomas, it's going to take care of cancers, kidneys, and all the others under Non-Communicable Diseases, Mr Speaker it is not realistic.
Mr Speaker, we have existing programs, we have directorates, we have units that are already responsible for them," he argued.
