Meet Our village Staff

Venkateshwary

Venkateshwary has worked with us since 1993 and has been trained as a paramedic by the IRHS. She enjoys working with women and is skilled in both obstetrics and gynecology. She has a wde range of medical interests. She is eager to build her knowledge and appreciates the teaching she has received from volunteer doctors. She hopes that they will continue coming; from each one she learns something different. Venkateshwary is married and has two teenage daughters, one of whom is studying laboratory technology.

Jayamma

Jayamma started with the IRHS in 1994, but she has lived across the street from the clinic since she came to Dokur as a young married woman. Her favourite activities include working with women and children. She is well known in the village clinic for her skillful ante-natal check-ups, gynecology work and deliveries. Her English has steadily improved and she is learning to read and write as well. Jayamma is happy to be a grandmother and enjoys helping all her friends, neighbors and relations who live in the village.

Shivaiah

Shivaiah was raised in Mahbubnagar district and educated in local schools. He has a bachelor of science degree, a diploma in pharmacy, and a bachelor's degree in education. He is married and has a young son, and now lives in Dokur. Shivaiah is a paramedic who compliments Venkateswary's skills. He is also skillful at managing clinic expenses and seeing that the guest house and volunteers are well looked after.

Heena

Heena was raised in an orphanage after her parents died when she was 10. We came to know her when she accompanied her sister and nephew to the IRHS clinic. Her nephew, Sonu, was born with a severe spinal deformity (mylomenigocoele). When Heena became 18 we brought her to Hyderabad for 2 months to learn English, after which time she joined us in Dokur as one of our health workers.

Pavani

Pavani has been an IRHS patient since she was 10 years old. She has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and when she was 18 and had finished her 12th class exams she accepted our offer to move to Dokur as a health worker. As Pavani has no father, we invited both her and her mother, Vimalamma, to join us. Her mother works for us as a housekeeper.

Ishaq

Ishaq joined IRHS in 2006 as a driver and patient counsellor for the Cervical Cancer Project. He is responsible for meeting volunteers at the train station in Mahbubnagar and taking them to and from the clinics.

Narsingamma

Narsingamma recently arrived from a distant village and asked to join us as a health worker. She had just completed her 12th class, is motherless and is handicapped with a severe spinal deformity (kyphoscoliosis.) Although barely 5 feet tall, Narsingamma makes up for it with enormous enthusiasm for her job.