HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE
HIS daughter was just a baby when doctors told him he was in the throes of heart failure and he feared he may not live long enough to see his little girl grow up.
But the future is looking bright for Johan van Wyk (38), an electrician originally from eMalahleni in Mpumalanga – and it’s all thanks to the little piece of ground-breaking technology ticking away in his chest.
Johan is the first person in South Africa to receive the Abbott HeartMate 3, a new mechanical heart device and the culmination of a
