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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use (https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/). Applause and cheering rings out every night in the huddled streets around 12 Octubre hospital in Madrid, hailing the 6,000 staff who work there as heroes. "We're not heroes; we're health workers," insists Hernando Trujillo, a doctor tackling the coronavirus emergency in the working-class south of the capital. The hospital has capacity for 1,300 beds and, at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic, close to 1,000 were being used to treat coronavirus patients. "There was almost no transition. It was really quiet and then suddenly a mad rush. The collapse came in a day," says , a 37-year-old emergency nurse.Epicentre of Spain's pandemic Spain has seen more than 20,000 deaths and the Madrid region is at the heart of it: a capital city blighted by this virus.  This city has seen 7,000 deaths, more than other European capitals. The contagion spread at a remarkable rate through the densely populated city and its cluster of suburbs.  The real death toll could be considerably higher as Madrid's regional government has revealed only 800 of 4,260 care home residents suspected of dying from Covid-19 were tested.How health collapse came all at once The first local infection is believed to have been detected on 27 February. By 15 March, there were 3,544 confirmed cases. At the peak on 31 March, 3,419 new cases were reported here on a single day. "What followed was two weeks of madness," says . 'I avoided Ebola but got this straight away' Another emergency department nurse, , is no stranger to epidemics. She has dealt with cholera in Haiti and Ebola in Sierra Leone as a Red Cross volunteer. "We collapsed. On a normal bad winter flu day you might get 100 people waiting. We had 220 from Covid-19, and people ended up sleeping in corridors," she remembers. And in this outbreak they were not prepared for the onslaught. "Five days in, I got a cough and tested positive." "The protective equipment arrived late and is still insufficient. I avoided cholera and Ebola infection, and I got this straight away," she says. When she came back at the end of March she found "the same degree of disorganisation". Her colleagues had become used to chaos and were too exhausted to consider working in other ways, she believes. Doctors at the hospital admit they had a lot to learn, and fast. "At the start, just as the population is very nervous about coronavirus, so were we as doctors," admits Dr Trujillo, a 35-year-old Mexican kidney and intensive care specialist who accepts he is not an expert in contagious disease. "But as days go by and medical publications start coming out, we have learned a lot. The hospital committee meets every day to discuss different treatments and what to look out for in analysis," he adds.Did medics fall ill through poor prote