{
  "id": 7481850,
  "title": "South Africa: From Split Livers to Machine Perfusion - the 20-Year Evolution of Liver Transplants in South Africa",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/south-africa-from-split-livers-to-machine-perfusion-the-20-year",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-15T05:16:38.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "AllAfrica Health",
    "slug": "allafrica-health",
    "url": "https://allafrica.com/stories/202609150022.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "[The Conversation Africa] South Africa is no stranger to organ transplants. The world's first heart transplant was performed in the country in the 1960s. There have been major developments in the decades since then. In the 1980s an organ donor registry was set up and local surgeons have been pushing the boundaries of what is possible. The Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre recently marked a…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}