Joy News’ multiple award-winning journalist, Seth Kwame Boateng has received the Global Health Reporting 2017 Award from highly esteemed International Center for Journalists (ICFJ).

Seth Kwame Boateng was adjudged winner together with four others from Brazil, China, Benin and India of the International Center for Journalists’ 2017 award for his story that focused on the state of healthcare at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Ghana.

A panel of international judges selected the 2014 GJA Journalist of The Year as the winner of the International Center for Journalists’ 2017 Global Health Reporting Contest for his “Next to Die” Special Assignment documentary.

Seth Kwame Boateng becomes the first Ghanaian to win this prestigious award.

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