GROOTE SCHUUR HOSPITAL

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or almost 80 years, Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town has provided world class healthcare and has achieved distinction as the academic hospital for service, education and research in partnership with the University of Cape Town Medical School and Faculty of Health Sciences.

 

Most famously of course was the historic first ever human to human heart transplant in the world on 3 December 1967 by Professor Christiaan Barnard and his team.

 

The hospital offers specialist services in every area of human disease, including trauma, neurology,  oncology and heart surgery, and is the only facility offering transplantation in South Africa’s public sector.

 

With a staff of over 500 doctors, 1300 nurses and 1600 allied workers, it treats 50,000 inpatients and 350,000 outpatients every year.

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Groote Schuur Hospital, or `Grotties’ as it is affectionately known, is not just a building. It is a place of healing, a place of teaching and learning, a place of visionary thinking and innovation. It is a place of high ethical and moral standards, of selfless dedication and service, a place of excellence, a place that the Groote Schuur Family calls ‘home’.

 

Professor Timothy Pennel is the Head of Division and Chris Barnard Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Cape Town.

 

The famous heart transplant is however just one of many world “firsts” conducted at Groote Schuur during its remarkable lifespan.

LOOKING BACK OVER

50

YEARS

SOME OF GROOTE SCHUUR HOSPITAL’S WORLD FIRSTS

1965 – first rapid warming device for massive blood transfusions developed

1967 – first human heart transplant

1975 – first transplant of a vascularized human fallopian tube

1979 – Cormack awarded the Nobel Prize for his work towards developing the CT scanner

1981 – Wicomb and team develop the first method for storing donor hearts by hypothermic perfusion

1983 – first human liver transplant using the heterotopic technique

1989 – discovery of a technique to locate brain tumours without having to do invasive surgery

2008 – first HIV positive-to-positive kidney transplant

2015 – first combined ultrasound and mammography device tested

2017 – first brain operation performed through the eye

OUR

BENEFICIARIES

 

All donations we collect get allocated to the great initiatives run by our worthy beneficiaries:

  • The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
    • Weekend Waiting List Project
  • The Groote Schuur Hospital
    • 1000 Hearts initiative
  • The Children’s Cardiac Foundation Of Africa
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