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Cataract Surgery

Service/Procedure Summary

Cataract surgery is the removal of a clouded lens (or cataract) from the eye to improve vision. The wait time shown is for patients who had their first cataract surgery.

Consult

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

239 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

213 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	55 days	81 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	92 days	112 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	222 days	78 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	203 days	190 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	338 days	59 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	230 days	211 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	243 days	209 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	183 days	300 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	---	147 days

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Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	31 days	34 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	51 days	67 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	101 days	46 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	83 days	69 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	216 days	14 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	111 days	124 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	119 days	183 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	184 days	159 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	---	133 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	67 days	54 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	107 days	42 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	55 days	127 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	70 days	130 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	123 days	82 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	120 days	86 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	105 days	127 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	115 days	129 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	103 days	142 days
Stanley George	Halifax	93 days	155 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	140 days	116 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	132 days	152 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	154 days	160 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	253 days	84 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	166 days	194 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	188 days	175 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	142 days	239 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	214 days	171 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	338 days	77 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	160 days	267 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	231 days	202 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	154 days	288 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	283 days	170 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	173 days	281 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	357 days	108 days
David Comstock	Middleton	210 days	342 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	254 days	421 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	242 days	596 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	791 days	274 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	870 days	225 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	392 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mohamed Tawfik Akif Albahiti	Halifax	---	---

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	19 days	14 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	29 days	20 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	24 days	46 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	19 days	54 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	63 days	30 days
Stanley George	Halifax	32 days	70 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	74 days	35 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	51 days	69 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	82 days	51 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	71 days	62 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	111 days	32 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	65 days	78 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	46 days	98 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	105 days	46 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	118 days	43 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	15 days	149 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	72 days	108 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	78 days	104 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	161 days	26 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	35 days	167 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	163 days	61 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	44 days	197 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	109 days	134 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	128 days	119 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	223 days	28 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	150 days	113 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	116 days	160 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	104 days	242 days
David Comstock	Middleton	156 days	258 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	320 days	94 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	50 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mohamed Tawfik Akif Albahiti	Halifax	---	---

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