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West End Welcomes New Health Clinic BALMORAL CLINIC LOOKING TO GROW, ADD NEW PATIENTS
By Jim Bender T he Balmoral Clinic is seeking more patients who need family doctors. The locally owned and operated medical facility opened this past January. “So, it’s been 10 months,” says owner/director Kris Allen. “It’s been good. It’s going in the right direction, just not as fast as we would like it to. So (we want to) give it a little jump start on the numbers. But it’s fine. We’re still busy, we’re still good.” The clinic features three doctors – Dr. Emeka Enyia, his wife, Dr. Okiemute Enyia, and Dr. Mohsin Rana. “We had a bit of a different situation because we had three doctors who all started at the same time with no patient load,” Allen says. “So, we’re building three practices from ground zero. We have too much doctor power and not enough new patients coming in as fast as we would like. We’ll get there. We’re on the right path, but we want to kick it up a notch. It’s growing, we just want to speed it up a bit” Allen recruited all three doctors, who had been practising in the United Kingdom, himself. “They’re not new grads, they (had) been practising for some time over there,” says Allen, a pharmacist and business owner. “I got them through connections.” The clinic currently has six examination rooms. “We are expanding, actually. We need more space because the physicians have some areas of special interest and we need more exam rooms and space to do those procedures” Allen says. “So, we’re expanding to accommodate those services … It’s a lot of work but we like our challenges around here.” The doctors have their own areas of special interest beyond the normal treatments. “We have minor injury and minor surgery procedures (such as removing skin tags) that Dr. Rana will do,” says Arlene Garcia, gen- eral manager for the clinic and a former pharmacist assistant who once worked for Manitoba Health. “And of course, (Dr. Okiemute Enyia) is doing IUD insertions and women’s health stuff.” Dr. Rana also speaks Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu, Garcia adds. The clinic also offers nurse practitioner services for opioid ag- onist therapy. Flu, COVID and other vaccinations are also avail- able there. “We just want to expand our reach,” Allen says. “We want to point out that we’re open seven days a week, including stat
holidays. So, we’re extremely accessible.” The clinic also offers free on-site parking and an on-site pharmacy. The clinic, which is located at 555 Balmoral St., is not part of the recently-renovated New Balmoral Hotel, which has a differ- ent address. “Because we are the Balmoral Clinic and it used to be the Bal- moral Hotel, everybody gets us confused so that is kind of frus- trating, but we are not related at all,” Allen says. “We are the clinic that is next to the former Jumbo Pizza loca- tion … Weirdly enough, they (renovated the hotel) just around the same time as us (opening). That was just strangely coincidental. We are not related whatsoever. We’re a different organization.”
Allen has also made the nearby Health Sciences Centre aware that its emergency department could take advantage of the clin- ic’s proximity for patients who could be treated at a walk-in. “We have actually reached out to the HSC emerg department to say, if you need somewhere to refer patients, not only are we available seven days a week, including walk-ins, but if you have patients coming through there that don’t have a family doctor, we can help in that capacity, too,” he says. The clinic includes three full-time and one part-time employee. “Our services are not confined to people in the West End,” Al - len says. “Anybody from around Winnipeg or anyone from out of town who want to come see us, come on in.” ■
(From left to right) Dr. Okiemute Enyia, Dr. Emeka Enyia, Dr. Mohsin Rana and owner/director Kris Allen outside the Balmoral Clinic in the West End. Photo by Darcy Finley
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