Heart to Lung machine
Chris Barnard, the SA surgeon who used a kidney machine to carry out the very first heart transplant
Africa made history in the mid-1960s by pushing the frontiers of a medical breakthrough. The continent pioneered the first human heart transplant at the Charles Saint Theatre at Groote Schuur Hospital. The heart transplant surgery was conducted on a human by South African surgeon Dr. Chris Barnard on December 3, 1967, at the Groote Schuur…
