Capacity Planning at Shouldice Hospital on treatment of hernia repairs. If operations are performed 5days /wk. How many operations could the hospital perform per day. what is the effect of increasing the number of beds by 50%. How many operations can the hospital perform before running out of bed capacity. How well will the new resources would be utilised relative to the current operations? recalling the capacity of 12 surgeons and 5 operating rooms, could the hospital really perform this many operations? Why?