Hello, I'm Nulam McGavrin on the BBC World Service, and this is BBC OS conversations, guilty mums.

The pressure of coping during a pandemic is affecting everyone.

From parents forced to homeschool to women who, due to financial hardship,

decided to sell naked videos of themselves online.

I never thought about doing this kind of thing.

I used to kind of actually look down on people who did

until I started doing it, but 2020 was the worst year of my entire life and I would have never done this if everything

had just kept going as it was.

I want to first though return to the pressures in hospitals. Compared to the

rest of Europe, coronavirus cases in Portugal didn't feature much in global headlines during the past year, partly because

compared to the rest of Europe its coronavirus cases remained relatively low for most of 2020.

Unfortunately, that is no longer the case and off the 13,000 or so debts in Portugal,

roughly half of these have been recorded since Christmas. The country is

currently in lockdown but its health care system is being overwhelmed. Dr Bruno Maya

is an intensive care doctor at Sao Jose Hospital, a large public

hospital in the center of Lisbon.

We are living in a catastrophic scenery right now.

Every day we are faced with the unforeseen situations.

We are always looking for new places, new beds,

new wards, new people to work and to admit new patients.

It's been very, very difficult.

How do you understand how it got so bad so quickly?

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