Lisa Hassel usually works as a nurse at the intensive care unit in Helsingborg.

For the past eight days, she has worked 12-hour workouts - in a protective visor, operating hood and protective mask - in an intensive care unit at Huddinge hospital.

A newly built surgery department that would have opened next week - but quickly transformed to care for covid patients.

"An honor to help"

- It's been tough, but I still come home with a good feeling. It is an honor to help, she says.

The department has 20 care locations. During the time Lisa Hassel worked there, 18 of the patients were men. The youngest born in the 1990s.

- Four to five people died while I was there. But pleasingly enough, there were also some pieces we could remove the hoses on and send them back to the care departments.

Appealed to all regions

Lisa Hassel is one of six employees - a doctor, three nurses and two nurses - from the intensive care unit in Helsingborg, which has assisted Huddinge Hospital with the help of recent weeks.

Stockholm's appeal went to the country's regions just before Easter, says Niklas Nielsen, chief physician at IVA in Helsingborg.

- They had a high influx of patients and also a high absenteeism rate among staff. In addition, they had not been able to train other categories of staff to work in intensive care, he says.

Skåne is still less affected by the corona virus and the situation on the intensive in Helsingborg is therefore not as crowded.

Got a lot of knowledge

"The hope is that we will get help from Stockholm if they get over their hump this summer and we will have a lot of trouble here," says Niklas Nielsen.

Lisa Hassel believes that she and her colleagues will benefit from her experiences.

- Yes, we have gained a great deal of knowledge and experience that we bring with us, which we can pass on to make care safer here.

In the clip above, Lisa Hassel explains, among other things, what it is like to anesthetize severely ill covid patients.