Since it opened, the Whitehorse Walk-in Clinic has provided 9,441 appointments to Yukoners without a family doctor. However, this summer, it has also turned away an average of 22 people seeking appointments, daily.

The clinic opened in January 2024 on Quartz Road before moving to its current home on the corner of Jarvis Street and Second Avenue in Whitehorse. The opening of the clinic was a term of the extension of the confidence-and-supply agreement struck between the Yukon Liberals and the Yukon NDP in 2023.

The clinic only provides care to those without family doctors: currently the Yukon Department of Health and Social Services says that 4,459 Yukoners are waiting to be matched with a family doctor.

Mairi Macrae, a spokesperson for Health and Social Services said that the Whitehor

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