Groote Schuur Hospital is a government academic hospital situated on the slopes of Devil’s Peak in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. The hospital was founded in 1938 and is famous for being the institution where the first human-to-human heart transplant took place, conducted by University of Cape Town-educated surgeon Christiaan Barnard on the patient Louis Washkansky. The hospital underwent major extension in 1984 when two new wings were added. The old main building now mainly houses several academic clinical departments as well as a museum about the first human heart transplant.
