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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 ?

207 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

214 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	74 days	71 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	136 days	120 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	102 days	158 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	129 days	159 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	167 days	218 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	126 days	274 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	224 days	197 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	322 days	123 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	314 days	256 days

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Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	22 days	48 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	85 days	77 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	104 days	69 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	64 days	131 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	67 days	145 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	125 days	89 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	172 days	49 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	96 days	162 days
New Glasgow	Aberdeen Hospital	147 days	162 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	55 days	88 days
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	63 days	114 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	142 days	69 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	71 days	170 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	102 days	160 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	132 days	141 days
Stanley George	Halifax	145 days	141 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	121 days	172 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	170 days	126 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	159 days	191 days
Kenneth Hammel	New Glasgow	150 days	211 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	192 days	173 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	129 days	246 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	229 days	158 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	231 days	159 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	303 days	88 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	150 days	241 days
Monica Carrillo	Glace Bay	243 days	180 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	224 days	222 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	155 days	301 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	266 days	207 days
David Comstock	Middleton	182 days	309 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	332 days	181 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	144 days	393 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	324 days	373 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	725 days	176 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	1717 days	203 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	357 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Andrew C Orr	Amherst	28 days	41 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	37 days	34 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	48 days	32 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	57 days	41 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	27 days	100 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	61 days	69 days
Stanley George	Halifax	62 days	86 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	11 days	149 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	113 days	57 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	74 days	96 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	74 days	102 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	85 days	96 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	64 days	121 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	144 days	42 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	111 days	77 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	100 days	96 days
Saraswati Sivakumar	Glace Bay	168 days	30 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	93 days	108 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	89 days	127 days
Monica Carrillo	Glace Bay	123 days	102 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	101 days	146 days
M. Margaret Silver	Antigonish	140 days	111 days
John Hamilton	Antigonish	47 days	211 days
Kenneth Hammel	New Glasgow	95 days	179 days
Daniel Belliveau	Halifax	188 days	115 days
David Comstock	Middleton	123 days	195 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	226 days	111 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	172 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---

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