Barnard’s son found dead
NZPA-AP Cape Town The physician son of the heart-transplant pioneer, Christiaan Barnard, had been found dead in the bathtub of his home, with a syringe on the floor nearby, the police said yesterday. The police at Claremont station, near Cape Town, refused to comment on their inquiry into the death of Andre Barnard, aged 32. The “Argus” newspaper said that it was believed his death had been caused by an injection.
He was in private practice and specialised in pediatrics. .Dr Christiaan Barnard retired in August, aged 60, because arthritis had impaired the use of his hands. He was in Singapore yesterday and called-off a trip to London to. fly to South Africa.
The “Argus” said that Andre Barnard’s wife, Gail, had returned home at 7 a.m. from an overnight nursing shift at Groote Schuur Hospital to find the doors locked. She had peered through windows and saw her son, aged 5, and daughter, aged 3, sleeping. She had then spotted her husband in the bath-tub and summoned the police, who forced open a door. Andre Barnard, a 1975 graduate of the medical school of the University of Cape Town, was one of two children from his father’s first marriage. His sister is a champion water-skier.
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