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 Ronke Olawale is one of the all-round reporters in the industry today. She is coming to DAME this year to add to her collection as the winner of Health Reporting category of the 14th DAME. Ronke Olawale, currently a Ph. D student in the University of Lagos, started her journalism career with the African Guardian as a youth corp member in 1993. She is today a correspondent saddled with writing features.
Her winning story, “The degeneration of LUTH”, was about the sorry state of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi Araba, one of the nation’s centres of medical excellence. In the report, Ronke gave a pictorial situation of the hospital; no functional scanning machine, no functional X-ray machine, no functional ambulance, no water, no bed sheets and pillows, no nets on the windows. No wonder its Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) accreditation, the only one in West Africa, was withdrawn due to lack of efficiency.
The situation was not been helped by workers of the hospital who went on strike for 45 days following what they termed insensitivity of the Ministry of Health and the LUTH management to the plight of workers in the hospital.
Ronke Olawale holds Bachelor of Arts and Masters degrees in English from the Ondo State University and she enjoys meeting people and traveling. She won the DAME for HIV/AIDS reporting in 2001.
A mother of two, she is happily married.
Your Excellency I present Ronke Olawale.
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