Bob Geldof and Claire Bertschinger, the nurse who inspired the original Live Aid concert in 1984, spoke at the chief nursing officer’s conference
It took Claire Bertschinger 20 years to tell the full story of the horrors she faced during the 1984 war and famine in Ethiopia. In all those years only her family knew she was the young nurse who had appeared in the BBC news item that became the catalyst for the Live Aid phenomenon.
Nursing Standard. 20, 16, 17-17. doi: 10.7748/ns.20.16.17.s22
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