Groote Schuur Hospital

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Groote Schuur Hospital is a government-funded hospital situated in Cape Town, South Africa. It is probably most famous for being the institution at which the first human heart transplant of Louis Washkansky took place, by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard. Groote Schuur Hospital is also the facility where UCT medical students conduct their internships and residencies.

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  • Groote Schuur is Dutch (in its spelling before 1947) for great barn
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