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World Service,03 Dec 2009,10 mins

Heart Transplant

Witness History

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It was over 40 years ago today that a team of surgeons carried out the world's first heart transplant at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. One member of that team remembers the operation and its aftermath.

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