The heart transplant unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, where
Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, has been forced
to reduce its operations and may even close because of a lack of money. The unit
is a casualty of the South African government’s emphasis on primary health care.
Half the unit’s staff have left since 1995.
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