The Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Prof.
Kingsley Nyarko, has openly criticized the recently passed Ghana Medical Trust Fund Bill, 2025-popularly known as the Mahama Cares Programme-calling it "completely needless and unnecessary." In an interview on Channel One Newsroom on Tuesday, July 22, Prof.
Nyarko argued that the core aim of the bill-to support patients suffering from chronic and life-threatening non-communicable diseases such as cancer, kidney failure, diabetes, and stroke-could have been addressed within the framework of the existing National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). "For me, I think it is completely needless and unnecessary because we have the National Health Insurance Scheme. "This bill seeks to provide medical support to persons who have non-communicable diseases, largely," he said. "But the current Health Insurance Act could be amended to cater for this ailment.
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