Graphic’s Gilbert Azeem Tiroog bags 2 awards at Upper East GJA Awards

WASH reporting The Upper East Regional Director of Health Services, Dr Braimah Baba Abubakari, in his keynote address said WASH was essential to quality health care and safe childbirth, noting that the region recorded a skilled delivery rate of 78.

The Upper East Regional Chairman of the GJA, Albert Sore, said journalists must move beyond reporting the commissioning of health facilities and government interventions to examining whether such interventions were improving lives.

Francis Dabang of the Ghanaian Times won Business and Finance Reporting; James Tsiquaye of Dreamz FM, Radio Documentary; Prosper Adankai of GBC-URA Radio; Tourism, Arts and Culture Reporting; Stephen Chidozie of Apex News; Health Reporting; while Salifu Afangya of Dreamz FM was adjudged Sports Journalist of the Year.