Heart of Cape Town Museum. Picture: Ayanda Ndamane/ Independent Newspapers
Shakirah Thebus – 17 August 2024
Cape Town – Fifty-six years ago Dr Christiaan Barnard walked through the entrance of the Old Main Building of Groote Schuur Hospital, and left having performed the world’s first human heart transplant, bringing international acclaim to the medical facility.
Today, those doors remain open for visitors to the Heart of Cape Town Museum, taking them back in time in the original room where the operation was performed, viewing the now large and outdated machinery and instruments then used…