Prince Edward County council voted on Tuesday to support a Rotary Club of Wellington initiative to establish a nurse practitioner clinic in Wellington.

Rotary members David MacKinnon and Dawn Cutler were on hand to outline their plan which seeks to offer a nurse practitioner solution to some of the "5,000 orphan patients" in the county.

They hope that with enough provincial support, the initiative can establish a clinic in Wellington (which will be a satellite facility of an existing Belleville nurse practitioner clinic), consisting of two nurse practitioners and an additional nurse, with the hope of establishing more clinics in the future. They estimated that the pair of nurse practitioners could together care for as much as 1,800 orphaned patients.

MacKinnon and Mayor Ferguson had the following to say in regard to advocating with the province, in respect to local healthcare:

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