Surviving another day

Abstract

In the context of the health contingency caused by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, public and private health institutions have taken on the task of caring for people who have tested positive for COVID-19: the work of nurses , nurses, doctors and doctors are transcendental but there are also other fundamental social actors for health care: cleaning workers. We present excerpts from the interview conducted in April 2020, with two female cleaning workers from a national institute of the Secretaría de Salud of México.