Board Chairman of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Prof Titus Beyuo, has passionately defended the decision to fast-track the Ghana Medical Trust Fund bill popularly known as the MahamaCares bill describing it as a matter of life and death.
Speaking on JoyNews’ PM Express, Prof Beyuo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Lambussie, stressed the urgent need for the bill’s passage, saying lives were literally at stake.
“We’re talking about lives here,” he said. “If providing health care for people who need dialysis, cancer treatment, or are in critical condition is not urgent, then I don’t know what is.”
For Prof Beyuo, there is no room for delay. He maintained that the bill’s objective—to support vulnerable patients who cannot afford essential medical care—makes its swift approval non-negotiable.
“No life can wait,” he stressed, justifying the urgency clause that saw the House fast-track the bill’s consideration.
The medical doctor insisted the House was right to act swiftly, because “there is no time.”
He reminded Ghanaians of the words of a former president, Nana Akufo-Add,o who said during the Covid-19 pandemic that: “They can revive the economy, but they cannot bring back lives.”
For him, those words capture the gravity of the moment.
“There’s no better way to emphasise the urgency of this.”
The emotional weight of the situation was clear as he reflected on the suffering of real people.
“For those people suffering today, they wish this had been passed yesterday.”
To him, the delay already feels like a betrayal of those in need.
“For someone who is on social media appealing for fun today, for a constituent who is looking for money today, they wish this had been passed a month ago,” he said. “So there’s no time to waste.”
Abubakar Ibrahim
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