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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 ?

283 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

279 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	132 days	75 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	104 days	190 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	274 days	62 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	272 days	106 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	183 days	267 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	194 days	263 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	133 days	414 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	318 days	343 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	33 days	32 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	71 days	56 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	27 days	113 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	141 days	55 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	92 days	173 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	254 days	50 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	102 days	267 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	308 days	253 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---

Wait Times by Surgeon

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Karen Koetsie	Sydney	48 days	48 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	42 days	86 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	62 days	92 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	111 days	61 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	116 days	72 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	163 days	92 days
Saqib Utman	Sydney	182 days	95 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	137 days	145 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	151 days	142 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	110 days	183 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	142 days	163 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	175 days	155 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	121 days	211 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	235 days	111 days
Stanley George	Halifax	161 days	192 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	234 days	155 days
David Comstock	Middleton	157 days	246 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	114 days	331 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	217 days	238 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	345 days	117 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	210 days	253 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	152 days	327 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	141 days	357 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	228 days	281 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	182 days	330 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	408 days	113 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	440 days	82 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	207 days	339 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	223 days	344 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	315 days	355 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	550 days	172 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	368 days	372 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	490 days	315 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	594 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	162 days
Veronique Promelle	Halifax	---	---

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Saqib Utman	Sydney	13 days	11 days
Karen Koetsie	Sydney	13 days	32 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	31 days	32 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	28 days	40 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	51 days	23 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	50 days	28 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	48 days	37 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	64 days	29 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	28 days	70 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	82 days	36 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	45 days	95 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	101 days	42 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	66 days	87 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	105 days	65 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	66 days	107 days
David Comstock	Middleton	49 days	127 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	56 days	120 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	67 days	114 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	48 days	148 days
Stanley George	Halifax	104 days	95 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	202 days	43 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	182 days	64 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	124 days	132 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	124 days	140 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	136 days	136 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	144 days	148 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	244 days	61 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	259 days	51 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	71 days	244 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	115 days	257 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	195 days	182 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	117 days	264 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	229 days	276 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	88 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	30 days
Veronique Promelle	Halifax	---	---

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