The aim of this paper is to discuss the issue of global existence of weak solutions of the so called ghost effect system which has been derived recently in [C. D. LEVERMORE, W. SUN, K. TRIVISA, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 2012]. We extend the local existence of solutions proved in [C.D. LEVERMORE, W. SUN, K. TRIVISA, Indiana Univ. J., 2011] to a global existence result. The key tool in this paper is a new functional inequality inspired of what proposed in [A. JÜNGEL, D. MATTHES, SIAM J. Math. Anal., 2008]. Such an inequality being adapted in [D. BRESCH, A. VASSEUR, C. YU, 2016] to be useful for compressible Navier-Stokes equations with degenerate viscosities. Our strategy to prove the global existence of solution builds upon the framework developed in [D. BRESCH, V. GIOVANGILI, E. ZATORSKA, J. Math. Pures Appl., 2015] for low Mach number system.