Elective Cataract Surgery


The choice and the timing of the surgery are worked out together by the patient and doctor after the evaluation of the clinical conditions. Patients are treated based on the seriousness of their illness and not only in the order of when they were added to the list.

As at 30 June 2021, there were 61,221 cataract surgery bookings in Eye Specialty with the waitlist per cluster as follows:

Cluster Hong Kong East Hong Kong West Kowloon Central Kowloon East Kowloon West New Territories East New Territories West
Waitlist
7,292
4,228
14,600
4,959
10,321
7,835
11,986

The waiting time for patients with cataract surgeries performed in the past 12 months (1 Jul 2020 – 30 Jun 2021) was as follows :

Cluster Hong Kong East Hong Kong West Kowloon Central Kowloon East Kowloon West New Territories East New Territories West
Number of Surgery Performed
1,892
3,018
4,446
1,727
1,986
4,216
2,500
Median Waiting Time* (month)
19
10
12
11
11
22
14
90th Percentile Waiting Time* (month)
28
14
33
20
38
26
40

(For reference only)
Date of Next Update: 29 October 2021

* The median and 90th percentile waiting time implies that half and 90% of the patients with surgeries performed could receive surgeries earlier than the indicated waiting time respectively.