The Independent - London, September 3rd, 2001
IN 1967 Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. The operation, as they cliche goes, was successful, but the patient died; but subsequent patients did better and, thanks to Barnard's nerve, heart transplants are now performed world-wide. He also performed the first open-heart surgery in South Africa.
He was born in 1922, the son of a Dutch Reformed minister who supported a large family in near-poverty. An elder brother died of heart disease as a child. Christiaan Barnard said later that he became a doctor to earn goo...
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