{"id":62658,"date":"2025-08-12T00:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62658\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T00:07:08","slug":"new-doctor-for-belleville-quinte-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/62658\/","title":{"rendered":"New doctor for Belleville | Quinte News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/gygfb4ow4aaoo-o.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"New doctor for Belleville\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Belleville\u2019s Family Physician Recruitment Program has signed another doctor to come to the region.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, the city announced that Dr. Goher Altaf will be moving to Belleville and starting a family medicine practice in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>Doctor Altaf is an experienced doctor from the United Kingdom, with 30 years of history in medicine, and 18 of those years in family medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Belleville has now recruited 50 doctors and 8 nurse practitioners to provide their service in the community. The program is funded in part by the dividends the City receives as a shareholder of Elexicon Energy, and to date, over $9 million has been committed to attracting primary healthcare providers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Belleville\u2019s Family Physician Recruitment Program has signed another doctor to come to the region. In a press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3735,3736,49,48,84,392,44,3733,3731,3734,3729,3730,3737,3732],"class_list":["post-62658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-bancroft","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-news","tag-pec","tag-picton","tag-prince-edward-county","tag-quinte","tag-quinte-news","tag-quinte-west","tag-trenton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}