Listen to Heart and Lung Transplant Coordinator of Cardiovascular Services Helen Gibbs recount a fascinating slice of Auckland's medical heritage: how the delivery suite at the old National Women's Hospital is now Hearty Towers – a home for heart and lung transplant patients. How and when did Hearty Towers begin?
Hear about New Zealand's innovative heart transplant programme, the patients' rehabilitation plan, and the significance of Maungakiekie / One Tree Hill. Could you climb for your heart and walk to the top of the volcanic cone, as heart transplant patients were once required to do? Explore our self-guided walking map to follow in the steps of the early heart transplant patients' route to recovery.
