{"id":221395,"date":"2025-12-08T06:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/221395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T06:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:55:11","slug":"people-cant-wait-weeks-wexfords-first-walk-in-doctor-sees-spike-in-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/221395\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People can\u2019t wait weeks\u2019 \u2013 Wexford\u2019s first walk-in doctor sees spike in demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">New clinic aims to ease pressure on overstretched GP practices as respiratory illness surges and ambulances queue for hours at Wexford General Hospital\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Khalily pictured in his surgery at the Walk in Doctor in Selskar Street. Pic: Jim Campbell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a7f79a7d-0a03-403c-a196-774edf63f200.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dr Khalily pictured in his surgery at the Walk in Doctor in Selskar Street. Pic: Jim Campbell<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A little more than a month ago, Dr Awais Tayyab Khalily, originally from Pakistan but living in Ireland with his family for the past decade, opened Wexford town\u2019s first walk-in medical clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The demand for such a service has never been more evident. In September, The Wexford People reported the experience of Ferdia O\u2019Brien, who returned to his hometown with his wife Mary Jo two years ago. Since then, the couple have been unable to secure a local GP and have been forced to make a 300km round trip to Dublin when medical issues arise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New clinic aims to ease pressure on overstretched GP practices as respiratory illness surges and ambulances queue for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[4247,18,135,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-221395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-cillian-boggan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115682641939092014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}