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Groote Schuur

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Groote Schuur

Large estate near Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa, formerly the home of Cecil Rhodes, to whom there is a memorial. Today it includes the Cape Town residences of the president and deputy president of South Africa, the University of Cape Town and its medical school, the Groote Schuur Hospital, where the world's first heart transplant operation took place in 1968.



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ERIC DECLOEDT, MB ChB, BSc Pharmacology (Hons) MARC BLOCKMAN, MB ChB, BPharm, Dip Int Res Ethics, MMed (Clin Pharmacol), FCCP (SA) Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town Corresponding author: Eric Decloedt (eric.
Lydia Cairncross, a surgeon at Cape Town's Groote Schuur hospital told AFP: "We have held informal votes and most people have rejected the offer.
The first was performed by cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in South Africa in December 1967.
 
 
 
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