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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 ?

301 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

258 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	152 days	161 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	301 days	29 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	64 days	274 days
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	177 days	190 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	173 days	243 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	180 days	258 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	552 days	82 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	327 days	332 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	---	139 days

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	41 days	90 days
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	79 days	97 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	147 days	49 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	33 days	176 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	120 days	104 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	232 days	18 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	196 days	56 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	141 days	209 days
Glace Bay	Glace Bay Healthcare Facility	---	78 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

90%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Saqib Utman	Glace Bay	42 days	116 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	86 days	113 days
Hiron Kettledas	Glace Bay	141 days	100 days
Stanley George	Halifax	120 days	154 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	98 days	212 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	237 days	106 days
Paul Freund	Halifax	267 days	113 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	156 days	260 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	212 days	207 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	329 days	95 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	123 days	323 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	293 days	165 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	297 days	177 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	398 days	99 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	246 days	252 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	148 days	375 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	266 days	259 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	378 days	148 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	260 days	267 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	378 days	166 days
Daniel Belliveau	Sydney	344 days	234 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	359 days	259 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	222 days	422 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	88 days	622 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	239 days	502 days
David Comstock	Middleton	321 days	428 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	440 days	319 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	310 days	474 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	239 days	561 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	719 days	86 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	511 days	387 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	703 days	332 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	1001 days	470 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	1195 days	324 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	19 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	31 days	27 days
Hiron Kettledas	Glace Bay	31 days	34 days
Saqib Utman	Glace Bay	7 days	61 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	50 days	56 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	53 days	55 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	46 days	63 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	65 days	61 days
Stanley George	Halifax	59 days	77 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	66 days	78 days
Paul Freund	Halifax	103 days	42 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	54 days	107 days
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	134 days	63 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	110 days	93 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	88 days	117 days
Daniel Belliveau	Sydney	29 days	184 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	119 days	101 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	190 days	43 days
Lesya Shuba	Halifax	128 days	111 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	167 days	79 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	203 days	44 days
Alexander Tan	Halifax	200 days	51 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	113 days	148 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	56 days	208 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	46 days	222 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	49 days	224 days
Kristine L Mayer	Glace Bay	229 days	54 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Glace Bay	253 days	34 days
David Comstock	Middleton	56 days	252 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	127 days	218 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	162 days	189 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	57 days	336 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	200 days	259 days
Hesham Lakosha	Halifax	48 days	417 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	426 days	50 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	9 days
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---
Mishari M Dahrab	Halifax	---	---

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