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South Africa – First Human Heart Transplant

On the 3rd of December 1967, Christiaan Barnard and a vast medical team performed the first human to human heart transplant.  The surgery occurred at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa.



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