{"id":468281,"date":"2026-05-26T19:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468281\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:12:12","slug":"construction-underway-for-ballina-minor-injuries-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/468281\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction underway for Ballina minor injuries unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Construction has gotten underway on the long-awaited Minor Injuries Unit in Ballina, similar to the one currently in operation in Roscommon.<\/p>\n<p>The facility, which will open for seven days a week and 12 hours each day, is set to open still this year.<\/p>\n<p>The unit will provide treatment for a range of conditions including broken bones, cuts and soft tissue injuries, and will accept both GP referrals and self-referrals from patients.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile as part of this development, the out-of-hours healthcare service Westdoc has made a move to a new location in the North Mayo town on Kevin Barry Street.<\/p>\n<p>Ballina Fine Gael Senator Mark Duffy has been telling Midwest Radio\u2019s Rowan Kelly more about this development on Morning Edition\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MARKMIU.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MARKMIU.wav<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Construction has gotten underway on the long-awaited Minor Injuries Unit in Ballina, similar to the one currently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-468281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}