Hospital Troubles

When hospital staff arrived for work at Altnagelvin on January 30, and 31 July, 1972, they were days like few others. On these days they dealt with the aftermath of Bloody Sunday and the Claudy Bombing. Nurses were forced to deal with the trauma on many occasions, often struggling to help people who might have been neighbours. Annie Courtney, a former theatre staff nurse, Ursula Clifford, the hospital's former critical care manager, and Alan Corey-Finn, Altnagelvin's current Executive Director of Nursing, spoke to Mark Patterson on the hospital's fiftieth anniversary, about those times and how the hospital's changed. They started by recalling how it felt, fifty years ago, to use what was then state of the art sterilisation equipment.

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