The Good Karma Hospital
The Good Karma Hospital' follows doctor Ruby Walker who swaps England for India and finds herself at an under-resourced and over-worked cottage hospital run by eccentric Englishwoman Lydia Fonseca (Amanda Redman).
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This series tells the story of junior doctor, Ruby Walker (Amrita Acharia, Game of Thrones), who arrives in India looking for a job and a distraction from her heartbreak. She anticipates the sunshine and picture-perfect beaches. She's even prepared for the tuk-tuks and the Delhi-belly that everyone warned her about. What she doesn't expect are the realities of work, life and even love at an underresourced and over-worked cottage hospital.
A junior doctor, Ruby Walker (Amrita Acharia, Game of Thrones) arrives in India looking for a job and a distraction from her heartbreak. She anticipates the sunshine and picture-perfect beaches. She's even prepared for the tuk-tuks and the Delhi-belly that everyone warned her about. What she doesn't expect are the realities of work, life and even love at an underresourced and over-worked cottage hospital.
A junior doctor, Ruby Walker (Amrita Acharia, Game of Thrones) arrives in India looking for a job and a distraction from her heartbreak. She anticipates the sunshine and picture-perfect beaches. She's even prepared for the tuk-tuks and the Delhi-belly that everyone warned her about. What she doesn't expect are the realities of work, life and even love at an underresourced and over-worked cottage hospital.
The doctors have a troubling mystery on their hands when an unidentified man is discovered washed up on the beach, and also face a race against the clock to find anti-venom for local snake catcher whose luck may have run out, leaving him in urgent need of treatment.
The doctors have a troubling mystery on their hands when an unidentified man is discovered washed up on the beach, and also face a race against the clock to find anti-venom for local snake catcher whose luck may have run out, leaving him in urgent need of treatment.
Ruby becomes personally involved in the case of an abandoned baby that is brought to the hospital during the Holi festival, and Lydia is reunited with an expat artist, whose unusual lifestyle may be about to catch up with him.
Ruby becomes personally involved in the case of an abandoned baby that is brought to the hospital during the Holi festival, and Lydia is reunited with an expat artist, whose unusual lifestyle may be about to catch up with him.
Ram clashes with Lydia as a medical case becomes personal on the day he is due to attend a lavish wedding. Ruby treats a patient from the UK whose story does not add up, and the experience leaves her wondering where she really belongs.
Ram clashes with Lydia as a medical case becomes personal on the day he is due to attend a lavish wedding. Ruby treats a patient from the UK whose story does not add up, and the experience leaves her wondering where she really belongs.
Lydia and Ruby visit a convent to make a seemingly miraculous diagnosis, but the senior doctor's interfering attitude creates tension between them, Maggie and Paul join a group of pilgrims on a trek through the jungle, hoping to find the answer to her prayers.
Lydia and Ruby visit a convent to make a seemingly miraculous diagnosis, but the senior doctor's interfering attitude creates tension between them, Maggie and Paul join a group of pilgrims on a trek through the jungle, hoping to find the answer to her prayers.
The tension between Lydia and Ruby is reaching boiling point - driving the younger doctor to make a shocking decision. Maggie's health begins to decline dramatically and Debbie is adamant that the family must return to the UK. However Maggie is determined to remain in India for the time she has left.
The tension between Lydia and Ruby is reaching boiling point - driving the younger doctor to make a shocking decision. Maggie's health begins to decline dramatically and Debbie is adamant that the family must return to the UK. However Maggie is determined to remain in India for the time she has left.