The Ghana Medical Trust Fund (GMTF), popularly known as MahamaCares, is being targeted for an impending media campaign over recent donations received from corporate Ghana.
The development follows the Fund’s recent efforts to mobilise support from private-sector organisations under its “Kyere Wo Do” Heal Ghana Campaign, as well as its partnership with KGL Group and the KGL Foundation to construct an ultra-modern diagnostic centre at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge).
The diagnostic centre facility is expected to improve access to advanced medical imaging services and enhance diagnostic capacity at the hospital.
However, information available to this paper indicates that certain elements within the political and business communities, unhappy with the growing support MahamaCares is receiving from corporate Ghana, are seeking to use sections of the media to subject the Fund and its management to vile attack.
According to sources, the planned smear campaign would be presented as an accountability exercise, but may involve allegations concerning donations received by the Fund and its operations.
Insiders have hinted, the strategy is to compel the management of MahamaCares to respond to the allegations, which subsequently would be used to portray the Fund and its activities negatively, in order to discourage any further corporate support.
Amid the emerging development, The Archives has gathered that a media organisation has already submitted a request under the Right to Information (RTI) Act seeking information from the Ghana Medical Trust Fund.
Among other things, the organisation is seeking information on the amount of money the Fund had received from the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department.
The request, is believed to form part of broader efforts to obtain information on the financial resources received by MahamaCares from various quarters to pursue the planned agenda.
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