Over one thousand line up to sign up for new family doctor

January 23, 2025 @ 7:00 amListowel Banner, News, Rural, Walkerton Herald-Times, Walkerton-Wingham-Listowel, Wingham Advance Times

It takes more than cold, darkness and a snowstorm to deter people from lining up in an effort to get a family doctor. Over 1,000 people converged on the Royal Canadian Legion hall in Walkerton on Jan. 15 to register as patients with a new family doctor. (Pauline Kerr photo)

WALKERTON – A thousand people who live within 100 kilometres of Walkerton now have a family doctor. Some have been trying to get one for years. It’s difficult to arrange specialist appointments and necessary surgery without a family doctor. When word got out that Dr. Mitch Currie would be accepting 500 new patients, people took…

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Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.