On Monday 17 October 2016 Dr Razeen Gopal, Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the Cape Town Atrial Fibrillation Centre located in Mediclinic Panorama, percutaneously inserted the world’s smallest pacemaker into the heart of Mrs Joan van Niekerk (74) from Brackenfell. Dr Gopal performed three more implantations to complete the first post FDA-approval series of commercial intracardiac pacemaker implants in Africa.
