After the change in which clinics can provide services, Alberta Health Services is under fire for leaving eye surgery patients in midway.

In order to save $1.4 million a year and to reduce the long waiting times, the province announced a consolidation of eye operation at four centre i. e., two in Calgary and two in Edmonton.

"The government is claiming that we're going to see an increase in surgeries. Actually what we're going to see for the next number of months is a decrease in surgeries and a decrease in the number of surgeons performing them", said Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith.

According to the new system, which started on Thursday, is supposed to handle 35,000 ophthalmological surgeries, to add 2,140 more procedures, including contract operations and corneal transplants.

The parents who have already scheduled surgeries will now have to book new dates at the new centers again.

It was told by Dr. Thad Demong, who is the head of the Rocky Mountain Surgery Centre in Calgary that he had to inform the patients about rebooking at the new facilities chosen by the province and had to reduce 12 nurses.