[Primary health care cleaners in the context of the COVID -19 pandemic: between invisibility and essentiality].

This article presents the trajectory of primary health care (PHC) sanitation staff in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the inherent challenges and difficulties involved. It starts with the question: how did hygiene workers express the meanings of their experience of working as hygienists in the pandemic scenario? The objective of this study was to analyze the experience of sanitation workers regarding working as hygienists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative approach was adopted, based on the phenomenology of everyday life and ethnomethodology, to explore the work of these agents in the PHC context.

[Nonclinical support workers of a reference hospital in Bahia, Brazil, as being essential and invisible in the face of COVID-19].

In the context of hospital work during the COVID-19 pandemic, it should be acknowledged that the nonclinical support activities carried out by stretcher bearers, cleaning agents and administrative assistants were essential for the work process. This article analyzed the results of an exploratory stage of broader research with these workers in a COVID-19 hospital reference unit in the state of Bahia. Three semi-structured interviews were selected, using assumptions of ethnomethodology and ergonomics, to encourage these workers to talk about their work, The analysis concentrated on the work activities of stretcher-bearers, cleaning agents and administrative assistants from a visibility perspective.