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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 ?

197 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

244 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	61 days	130 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	149 days	163 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	160 days	159 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	202 days	171 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	159 days	269 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	335 days	99 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	209 days	247 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	178 days	342 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	---	209 days

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Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	36 days	91 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	119 days	25 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	89 days	74 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	87 days	78 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	143 days	43 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	64 days	140 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	132 days	117 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	140 days	200 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	---	181 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	63 days	122 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	127 days	64 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	123 days	84 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	175 days	36 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	57 days	155 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	192 days	21 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	96 days	130 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	116 days	114 days
Stanley George	Halifax	107 days	143 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	139 days	116 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	173 days	88 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	139 days	156 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	147 days	148 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	131 days	173 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	119 days	195 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	194 days	136 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	252 days	100 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	122 days	233 days
Kenneth Hammel	New Glasgow	161 days	211 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	190 days	183 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	113 days	298 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	153 days	260 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	336 days	82 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	337 days	103 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	175 days	364 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	237 days	302 days
David Comstock	Middleton	217 days	342 days
Monica Carrillo	Glace Bay	481 days	180 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	276 days	424 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	950 days	240 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	1259 days	261 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	454 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mohamed Tawfik Akif Albahiti	Halifax	---	---

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	8 days	14 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	42 days	11 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	23 days	43 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	45 days	26 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	56 days	33 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	37 days	59 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	37 days	67 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	84 days	28 days
Stanley George	Halifax	42 days	76 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	33 days	90 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	90 days	47 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	71 days	75 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	35 days	127 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	85 days	82 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	126 days	43 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	126 days	45 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	66 days	120 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	19 days	169 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	83 days	117 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	178 days	27 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	84 days	132 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	119 days	98 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	120 days	109 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	194 days	49 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	42 days	204 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	102 days	167 days
Kenneth Hammel	New Glasgow	115 days	167 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	72 days	218 days
Monica Carrillo	Glace Bay	205 days	102 days
David Comstock	Middleton	123 days	235 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	277 days	116 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	69 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mohamed Tawfik Akif Albahiti	Halifax	---	---

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