Corruption Watch’s Francisca Enchill nominated for international award - Adomonline.com

Corruption Watch’s investigative journalist, Francisca Enchill (Ativoe), has been nominated for the 2023 Norbert Zongo African Prize for Investigative Journalism (PAJI-NZ).

Francisca sees her nomination as a great recognition of her work having been part of 20 journalists nominated from a tall list of great journalists from 29 countries who filed for the award this year!

The Agony of Pregnant Women in Hospitals, a story which exposed how health facilities where charging National Health Insurance (NHIS) card holding pregnant women illegal fees for services and medications covered by the NHIS.

The hospitals denied the pregnant women urgent healthcare because they failed to pay the illegal fees.

The practice over the years has cost the lives of women and their babies.

A story that exposed staff of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) who take money from driving license applicants and in exchange give license to unqualified applicants who avoid going through the mandatory examination to certify them as qualified to drive

Francisca Enchill is Ghana Journalists Association Award’s first and still only female winner of the Investigative Journalist of the Year award.