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Naki, the Gardener Who Transplanted Hearts

On the team that made the first transplant, who removed the heart without damaging it and prepared it was Hamilton Naki, who appeared as a gardener of the hospital. Naki was very young when he came to the surgery. One of the hospital teachers asked him to stop cutting the grass and help him to hold a giraffe in which he was operating. By Miguel Ángel Sánchez de Armas This real episode took place on Saturday, December 2, 1967 in Cape Town, South …
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On the team that made the first transplant, who removed the heart without damaging it and prepared it was Hamilton Naki, who appeared as a gardener of the hospital. Naki was very young when he came to the surgery. One of the hospital teachers asked him to stop cutting the grass and help him to hold a giraffe in which he was operating. By Miguel Ángel Sánchez de Armas This real episode took place on Saturday, December 2, 1967 in Cape Town, South …

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Los Ángeles Press broke the news in on Sunday, March 29, 2026.
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