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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 ?

304 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

253 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	162 days	146 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	338 days	26 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	174 days	260 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	314 days	165 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	210 days	286 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	241 days	307 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	238 days	327 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	694 days	109 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	---	---
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	63 days	61 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	83 days	93 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	32 days	160 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	120 days	105 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	208 days	49 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	267 days	11 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	205 days	76 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	159 days	236 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	---	---
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Saqib Utman	Sydney	54 days	153 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	75 days	134 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	132 days	130 days
Stanley George	Halifax	140 days	139 days
Daniel Belliveau	Sydney	62 days	237 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	156 days	147 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	162 days	153 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	198 days	118 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	227 days	110 days
Hiron Kettledas	Glace Bay	227 days	120 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	86 days	261 days
Paul Freund	Halifax	226 days	140 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	272 days	118 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	314 days	77 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	176 days	246 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	167 days	316 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	391 days	107 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	422 days	88 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	378 days	142 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	420 days	102 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	344 days	203 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	219 days	359 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	359 days	259 days
David Comstock	Middleton	210 days	412 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	290 days	351 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	215 days	460 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	101 days	623 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	223 days	514 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	354 days	400 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	310 days	480 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	511 days	314 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	755 days	99 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	692 days	302 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	783 days	327 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	1212 days	360 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	14 days

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Saqib Utman	Sydney	8 days	61 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	40 days	40 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	39 days	55 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	53 days	58 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	61 days	54 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	56 days	60 days
Hiron Kettledas	Glace Bay	69 days	56 days
Paul Freund	Halifax	90 days	45 days
Stanley George	Halifax	62 days	76 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	78 days	61 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	79 days	61 days
Daniel Belliveau	Sydney	35 days	117 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	50 days	138 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	54 days	138 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	86 days	108 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	139 days	55 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	121 days	85 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	34 days	178 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	148 days	70 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	155 days	63 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	117 days	103 days
David Comstock	Middleton	39 days	190 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	40 days	189 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	194 days	42 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	192 days	48 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	160 days	81 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	225 days	28 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	253 days	34 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	82 days	212 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	145 days	169 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	43 days	302 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	159 days	194 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	64 days	295 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	221 days	281 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	455 days	58 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	9 days

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