‘Gold cannot save you at 2am’ – Obuobia Darko challenges mining giants to invest in healthcare

The Administrator of the Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), Adjoa Obuobia Darko-Opoku, has issued a powerful challenge to Ghana's mining industry to redefine its social responsibility by investing not only in roads, schools and boreholes, but in the healthcare systems that keep mining communities alive.

Speaking at the National Mining Dialogue 2026 in Accra under the theme "Rethinking the Social License to Operate," Ms Darko-Opoku told mining executives, investors and policymakers that the true wealth of Ghana is not buried beneath the soil, but found in its people.

She called on corporate Ghana, particularly the mining sector, to help build a new legacy; one measured not only in gold extracted from the earth, but in lives saved above it.