ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Wisal Yousafzai of the Express Tribune received the top honour in the ‘Excellence in Health Reporting Awards 2024’ presented by the Aga Khan University’s (AKU) Department of Paediatrics and Child Health for his report ‘Why is KP’s maternal mortality rate so high?’.
The Department hourned Wisal Yousafzai for ‘Excellence in Health Reporting’ in the Print Category at its Sixth Annual Paediatrics & Child Health Research Week 2024 from September 18-21, 2024.
FIRST PRIZE (PRINT): ‘The 3Ds ― delay in reaching care, delay in seeking care and delay in receiving care ― cause deaths of mothers and children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.’
Congratulations to @ExpressTribune KP reporter @WisalYousafzai for the @AKUPaediatrics ‘Excellence in Health… pic.twitter.com/tx4PqYZeWn— AKU Paediatrics (@AKUPaediatrics) September 23, 2024
The second prize in the Print Category went to Sadia Obaid Khan for her Daily Jang report on the ‘Impact of the Catastrophic 2022 Floods on the Population of Sindh’.
In the TV Category, the first prize was awarded to Abdur Razzak for his Pashto-language reporting on malnutrition in Pakistan for VoA Deewa while the second prize went to Shafqat Aziz of Neo TV for malnutrition in Sindh’s children and mothers.
The first prize for Digital in ‘Excellence in Health Reporting Awards 2024’ was shared shared between Dawn’s Areesha Rehan for her report ‘Between malnutrition and the right to business, where does Sindh’s breastfeeding law stand’ and Kehkashan Bukhari for her Geo.tv report ‘Mothers in the hot seat: Impact of climate change on pregnant women’.
 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health for his report ‘Why is KP’s maternal mortality rate so high?’.){kind=link}