An appeal has been sent out for volunteers to join hospital staff treating coronavirus patients in northwestern Hungary, as doctors said Covid-19 wards were overwhelmed, with the pressure only set to mount during the next few weeks, Reuters reports.

The call, posted on the Facebook page of the Hungarian Medical Chamber in the county of Gyor-Sopron, came just as the nation reported a record number of 11,276 patients in hospitals, with 1,340 of them on ventilators.

“The Covid-19 departments in almost all the hospitals are hugely overburdened, there is a shortage of nurses and they are becoming increasingly exhausted,” Laszlo Szijjarto, the chairman of the county chamber, said in the request.