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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 ?

309 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

261 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	167 days	89 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	124 days	225 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	194 days	245 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	365 days	138 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	129 days	384 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	353 days	161 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	261 days	273 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	322 days	340 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	61 days	21 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	42 days	90 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	114 days	74 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	191 days	55 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	146 days	156 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	91 days	261 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	312 days	46 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	264 days	264 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Anu Mishra	Halifax	42 days	86 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	42 days	86 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	91 days	73 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	100 days	92 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	82 days	176 days
Saqib Utman	Sydney	182 days	95 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	174 days	104 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	146 days	145 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	152 days	154 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	182 days	142 days
Stanley George	Halifax	151 days	192 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	181 days	163 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	234 days	119 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	156 days	225 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	258 days	147 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	141 days	280 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	196 days	238 days
David Comstock	Middleton	182 days	252 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	120 days	319 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	210 days	245 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	265 days	195 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	345 days	132 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	152 days	327 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	470 days	83 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	216 days	342 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	203 days	387 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	491 days	114 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	209 days	400 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	272 days	350 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	462 days	321 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	655 days	186 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	713 days	379 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	513 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	51 days
Veronique Promelle	Halifax	---	---

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Saqib Utman	Sydney	21 days	18 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	48 days	24 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	42 days	35 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	48 days	33 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	56 days	28 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	28 days	70 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	28 days	70 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	45 days	56 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	90 days	42 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	94 days	44 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	57 days	88 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	49 days	97 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	41 days	113 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	105 days	69 days
David Comstock	Middleton	50 days	132 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	83 days	103 days
Stanley George	Halifax	85 days	104 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	112 days	113 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	192 days	41 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	54 days	189 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	184 days	72 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	154 days	116 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	119 days	159 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	125 days	175 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	66 days	248 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	111 days	204 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	261 days	57 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	172 days	162 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	266 days	69 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	111 days	236 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	196 days	194 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	199 days	292 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	94 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	14 days
Veronique Promelle	Halifax	---	---

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