First Job Description

When I came to Rising Star in India I had no idea what I could contribute.  On arrival I was asked to get the medical clinic organized so it would function as a clinic.  I was shown a small room with an examination table, a desk, computer and lots of 'stuff'.  It was full of odds and ends that no one knew what else to do with.  It had a case of Burt's Bees Baby Lotion and Cream Kits.  What do we do with a case of product meant for babies?  We will never have babies here.  I found decks of cards, old and crumbling cotton dressings, empty bottles of evaporated alcohol, wool blankets (in the cold season from November to January the temperature drops to 75), two cases of essential Lavender Oil, two old blood pressure apparatus with rotted tubing, 1000 tubes of lip gloss (the humidity here keeps all skin areas moist - I don't even use lip gloss here) etc., etc.  I spent a couple of weeks going thru everything, sorting, cleaning, organizing and labeling.  We then removed everything from the room and tiled the floor then painted the walls.  We replaced the shelving, the desk, put in a small refrigerator for medicines, an autoclave to sterilize instruments, the examining table and a metal cabinet for medicines to be stored in.  Then I went thru all the medical records for 184 children from the past 7 years - repaired the worn books, glued in a sheet to keep track of all immunizations given and put them into sets according to the hostel family each child lives in. 
Each evening from 4 to 6 I helped Dr. Susan with medical exams.  The children would come to see her with all sorts of complaints.  Some of these patients we called the TLC group.  They really didn't have a medical problem but wanted to be touched, loved and told they are just fine.  I still give lots of hugs. :) :)  Some of the kids have a serious problem that has to be addressed.  We have been thru tonsillitis (remember 184 children) and pink eye. 
One of the true concerns is when a child finds a white area on their skin.  All these kids come from the Leper colonies.  They know Leprosy first hand.  The first sign of the disease is a white patch on the skin.  It's  called dry leprosy.  When it moves to the wet stage it is too late.  So when a child comes in and asks us to look at a patch we take extra care especially to calm their mind. 
This was my job description thru the end of December.