Concerns among healthcare professionals: "Many feel that they do not have the strength again"

In recent weeks, various clinics have worked to reactivate their collaborations in order to be able to quickly adjust if a new covid wave comes.

For already today it is noticeable that the calm period between late summer and early autumn is over.

- Now we have patients in the ward with covid-19 who we care for in the intensive care unit.

At the end of the summer we had none.

We are now preparing to open more wards that we had last spring when we opened three new intensive care units only for infected patients, says Elin Norås, intensive care nurse at Mälar Hospital in Eskilstuna.

Helps other regions

Although the number of covid patients is relatively low compared with other regions, an increase in infection will also affect Sörmland.

- We received a lot of help during the spring and had to send many patients away, so we have a moral debt to help.

We are happy to do that, but it also means that there will be few resources now that we are also trying to maintain normal care, says Jesper Sperber, operations manager at the anesthesia clinic at Mälar Hospital and Kullbergska Hospital.