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“One-in-a-hundred children in the Eastern Cape are born with heart disease like everywhere else and they need a cardiology service in the province,” says Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital paediatric cardiologist Rik de Decker, whose team treats young children
https://www.iol.co.za/weekend-argus/dire-problems-in-sas-cardiac-health-care-12228519 ‘Dire problems in SA’s cardiac health care’ Weekend Argus / 2 December 2017, 12:09pm / Ray Hartle THE 50th anniversary of the first human-to-human heart transplant is an opportunity to celebrate, but South Africans should also wake up to the reality of the
University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon Dr Tim Pennel joined East London cardiologist Dave Kettles in a discussion on the challenges in diagnosing and treating heart disease in South Africa. The event was hosted by Life
FROM OUR EVENT IN EAST LONDON: CURRENT AND FUTURE FRONTIERS IN HEART DISEASE AND TREATMENT The 50th anniversary of the first human-to-human heart transplant is an opportunity to celebrate, but South Africans must also wake up to the reality
(A composite article published in newspapers in April.) On October 11 last year, I received a donor heart in a transplant operation at the private Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town. I was the 216th heart recipient to come
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