The head of general surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital, Professor Lydia Cairncross is ... studying medicine in 1994 at the University of Cape Town. “It was not easy to decide which career to ...

On Tuesday, 3 December, the Groote Schuur Hospital and the staff of this public healthcare centre were elated to open the doors of its upgraded liver clinic, which struggled with aged facilities ...

Lester Kiewit speaks with Professor Lydia Cairncross of the Department of Surgery at the University of Cape Town Groote Schuur Hospital Academic Complex. This leads to consistent backlogs of ...

Picture: Ntuthuzelo Nene/ Eyewitness News CAPE TOWN - Lifesaving ... surgeries in the hospital's trauma centre. Head of Department of Surgery at Groote Schuur and UCT, Professor Lydia Cairncross ...

Anger mounted this week after two of Cape Town's most prominent public service doctors blew the whistle on proposed massive budget cuts. A high-ranking professor openly criticised provincial ...

From Antarctica to Haiti, to red zones in Cape Town, Dr Shaheem de ... performed on the premises by Professor Christiaan Barnard in 1967. But the historic hospital is under pressure. In February, ...

The hospital, together with the University of Cape Town’s department of health sciences ... issue,” said the woman behind the campaign, Professor Lynette Denny. Denny said sexual harassment ...