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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 ?

212 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

219 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	153 days	56 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	52 days	159 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	111 days	120 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	183 days	175 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	173 days	216 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	224 days	220 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	347 days	114 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	190 days	326 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	---	218 days

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Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	28 days	33 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	68 days	71 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	99 days	42 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	73 days	71 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	192 days	25 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	73 days	153 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	170 days	140 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	140 days	190 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	---	208 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	68 days	26 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	62 days	34 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	118 days	59 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	62 days	127 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	70 days	131 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	119 days	83 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	57 days	155 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	117 days	115 days
Stanley George	Halifax	102 days	144 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	123 days	152 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	136 days	148 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	136 days	160 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	188 days	120 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	216 days	96 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	172 days	159 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	149 days	193 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	124 days	233 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	191 days	174 days
Kenneth Hammel	New Glasgow	167 days	211 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	96 days	292 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	271 days	121 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	160 days	260 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	342 days	89 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	328 days	104 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	250 days	190 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	219 days	293 days
David Comstock	Middleton	225 days	344 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	257 days	366 days
Monica Carrillo	Glace Bay	481 days	235 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	286 days	527 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	686 days	253 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	870 days	225 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	392 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mohamed Tawfik Akif Albahiti	Halifax	---	---

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	20 days	12 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	19 days	13 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	24 days	46 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	50 days	30 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	58 days	33 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	29 days	63 days
Stanley George	Halifax	37 days	73 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	40 days	71 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	89 days	27 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	38 days	90 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	89 days	50 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	67 days	78 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	97 days	49 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	78 days	69 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	123 days	43 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	35 days	139 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	151 days	27 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	79 days	112 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	147 days	51 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	84 days	122 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	123 days	105 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	115 days	121 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	40 days	197 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	33 days	214 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	232 days	39 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	174 days	97 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	112 days	162 days
Kenneth Hammel	New Glasgow	128 days	166 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	106 days	226 days
Monica Carrillo	Glace Bay	237 days	104 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	292 days	95 days
David Comstock	Middleton	132 days	258 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	55 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mohamed Tawfik Akif Albahiti	Halifax	---	---

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