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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 ?

273 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

312 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	104 days	120 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	134 days	248 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	249 days	137 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	266 days	140 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	381 days	126 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	198 days	315 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	244 days	344 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	413 days	267 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

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Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	43 days	51 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	84 days	98 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	42 days	153 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	164 days	62 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	225 days	48 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	200 days	75 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	98 days	199 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	172 days	320 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	74 days	142 days
Saqib Utman	Sydney	82 days	165 days
Stanley George	Halifax	150 days	146 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	191 days	110 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	144 days	159 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	148 days	176 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	179 days	181 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	162 days	202 days
David Comstock	Middleton	77 days	295 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	98 days	278 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	152 days	236 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	283 days	112 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	311 days	90 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	288 days	119 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	299 days	111 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	273 days	143 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	85 days	351 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	245 days	193 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	314 days	143 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	335 days	150 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	196 days	329 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	480 days	123 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	323 days	289 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	233 days	393 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	126 days	524 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	380 days	276 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	430 days	327 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	785 days	111 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	764 days	373 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	1194 days	252 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	---	434 days
Verena Juncal	Halifax	---	20 days

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Saqib Utman	Sydney	29 days	58 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	32 days	56 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	48 days	49 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	38 days	64 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	61 days	42 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	49 days	70 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	45 days	82 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	74 days	55 days
Stanley George	Halifax	63 days	84 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	81 days	78 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	90 days	69 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	33 days	135 days
David Comstock	Middleton	36 days	153 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	117 days	78 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	112 days	86 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	178 days	50 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	181 days	50 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	175 days	56 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	153 days	90 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	54 days	190 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	111 days	139 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	133 days	119 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	231 days	23 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	41 days	216 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	204 days	62 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	56 days	218 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	142 days	195 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	289 days	69 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	77 days	288 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	164 days	235 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	---	282 days
Verena Juncal	Halifax	---	13 days

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