Groote Schuur Hospital

The Groote Schuur Hospital ( Dutch for Large Barn, also GHS or colloquially called Grotties ) is a hospital in Cape Town. Located below the Devil 's Peak and founded in 1938, it was announced here after the South African doctor Christiaan Barnard had performed the world's first heart transplant in 1967. An attached museum is dedicated to, among other things this event.

Groote Schuur is also the teaching hospital of the Medical Faculty of the University of Cape Town. 1984 has been significantly expanded with two new additions. 2007 worked here more than 500 doctors, 1300 nurses and orderlies and some 250 other doctors.

The hospital was named after the estate " Groote Schuur ", the Dutch settlers on the site of docked when Cape Town was founded in the 17th century.