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The Secret Surgeon – Dr. Hamilton Naki
This story is in Wikipedia, and it seems to be a true one. At some places, however, the truth of the story is doubted, telling he was not doing surgery on humans but agreeing that “Mr Naki assisted with the experimental work that preceded…the historic first heart transplant.”
Nevertheless, here it is:
“Hamilton Naki, a black South African of 78 years, died in May 2005. The news did not appear in the newspapers, but his history is one of the most extraordinary ones of the 20th century. Naki was a great surgeon!
It was he who took from the donor’s body the heart which was then transplanted into Louis Washkanky in 1967, at Cape Town, during the first surgery of human cardiac transplantation with positive exit. It was a very delicate work: the heart had to be removed and had to be kept with the biggest care.
Naki was the second most important man of the team which made the first transplantation of history. But he could not appear in public in the country of apartheid because he was black.
The chief surgeon of the team, the white Christian Barnard, became immediately a celebrity.
But Hamilton Naki could not appear on the team photos. In case he was on one by mistake the hospital said that it was a member of the housekeeping service.
Naki carried the surgeon’s hat and the mask but had never studied neither medicine nor surgery: he had left the school at the age of 14… He was a gardener of the school of Medicine at Cape Town.
He started cleaning the classes. But he was curious and learned quickly. He learned the surgical technique while seeing the white physicians practicing the transplantation techniques on dogs and pigs.
He started cleaning the classes. But he was curious and learned quickly. He learned the surgical technique while seeing the white physicians practicing the transplantation techniques on dogs and pigs.
He became such an exceptional surgeon that Dr Barnard wanted him as a team member.
It was a problem from the viewpoint of the laws of South Africa. Naki, a Negro, was not allowed to operate the patients nor could he touch the blood of the whites.
But the hospital considered him so valid that it made an exception for him. They made him a surgeon… but in secret.
But this didn’t interest him. He continued to study and to give the best of himself, regardless of the discrimination.
He was the best. He gave lessons to the white students but had the salary of a laboratory technician: the maximum that a hospital could pay to a Negro.
He lived in a shack without light nor flowing water, in a ghetto at the periphery as it suited to a Negro.
Hamilton Naki taught surgery during 40 years and left to retirement as a gardener, with 275 dollars per month.
When the apartheid ended they offered him a decoration and the title of physician honoris causa.
No one had noticed the injustices that he had to endure during all his life.
Dr Naki, thank you for everything that you made for humanity beyond your own interests.
May it become known that Hamilton Naki was a magnificent physician and an exceptional man.”
May this story be a rose in memory of Hamilton Naki
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