Inside an Ottawa eye clinic tapped to help clear Ontario's surgical backlog

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Inside an Ottawa eye clinic tapped to help clear Ontario's surgical backlog
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The Herzig Eye Institute, one of the clinics awarded a government contract to perform cataract surgeries to help clear the surgical backlog, says it is ramping up and opening a second operating room.

"It's a triple win," said co-founder and CEO Cherry Tabb. "For the patient, first.

Right now, the clinic on St. Laurent Boulevard does about 1,500 refractive cataract procedures a year. "Whether you work at a private clinic or you work at the hospital, it's really presenting the options that are there for the patient to the patient in a very kind of clear, low-pressure situation," said Dr. Kashif Baig, the medical director for the Herzig Eye Institute in Ottawa. "You want to do that so that you can give your patient all the options, and they make a personal choice as to what they feel is appropriate for them or not.

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