Stern
01 February, 1968
Dr Christiaan Barnard checks on his patient, Philip Blaiberg, in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, after a successful open heart transplant.
Blaiberg was the third person to receive a heart transplant, the first open heart transplant was also conducted by Barnard. The 58-year-old dentist received his new heart on 2 January 1968 from Clive Haupt, a 24-year-old textile worker who had died from a stroke on a Cape Town beach the day before. Blaiberg's transplant gained additional media attention because the donor was a black South African. Blaiberg returned home after two months in hospital. He died on 17 August 1969 from heart complications.