Groote Schuur Hospital
Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa.
Related events:
Sunday 3rd of December 1967 (x) — Louis Washkansky becomes the first man to have a human-to-human heart transplantation Washkansky lived for 18 days.
Thursday 21st of December 1967 (-) — Louis Washkansky dies of pneumonia Washkansky lived eighteen days after the transplant.
Tuesday 2nd of January 1968 (x) — Dentist Philip Blaiberg becomes the second man to have a heart transplant Blaiberg lived nineteen months with his new heart.
Sunday 17th of August 1969 (-) — Dentist Philip Blaiberg dies of a final rejection of his new heart Blaiberg was the man who lived longest with a transplanted heart.