[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.