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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.