The Good Karma Hospital

A medical drama about a junior doctor, Ruby Walker, who becomes disillusioned with her life and broken relationship, and decides to leave the UK. Seeing an advertisement for a hospital job in south India, she travels there hoping to make a fresh start and finds herself working at The Good Karma Hospital, an under-resourced and overworked cottage hospital run by a strong-willed English expat, Dr. Lydia Fonseca. ==Cast and characters==

• Amanda Redman as Dr Lydia Fonseca • Amrita Acharia as Dr Ruby Walker • James Floyd as Dr Gabriel Varma • Neil Morrissey as Greg McConnell • Darshan Jariwala as Dr Ram Nair • Nimmi Harasgama as Mari Rodriguez • Sagar Radia as AJ Nair (Series 1–3) • Phillip Jackson as Paul Smart (Series 1–2, 4) • Phyllis Logan as Maggie Smart (Series 1, cameo Series 2) • Achint Kaur as Mala Pradeep (Series 1-3) • Soni Razdan as Jasminder Patel (Series 2) • Ritvik Sahore as Atul Nadar (Series 1) • Priyanka Bose as Dr Aisha Ray (Series 3) • Sayani Gupta as Jyoti Gill (Series 3) • Scarlett Alice Johnson as Tommy McConnell (Series 3) • Kenneth Cranham as Ted Dalrymple (Series 3) • Rebecca Ablack as Dr Nikita 'Niki' Sharma (Series 4) • Connor Catchpole as Bobby Martin (Series 4) ==Episodes==

Series 1 (2017) Series 2 (2018) Series 3 (2019) Series 4 (2022) ==Reception==

On Rotten Tomatoes season 1 received an 80% rating based on reviews from 5 critics. Gayle Pennington of the St. Louis Post Dispatch described the first season as “a magical combination of familiar and exotically foreign…. a drama you’ll remember long after you finish watching it.“ Writing for the Indian digital news publication Scroll, Vikram Johri says: ”The series…has its heart in the right place even if it cannot entirely avoid tone-deaf generalisations… Ignore these irritants and the show can be engaging, especially when it is not trying to train the viewer in Indian mores… It is Walker who is the show’s beating heart. Unaware of Indian customs and rituals,..she takes to her new home and assignment with gusto, quickly imbibing that all-important Indian lesson of making do with what’s available. As a paediatrician, she finds herself performing minor surgical procedures. However, it is her deep reserves of empathy – and the gentle eyes of the actress who plays her – that make her the ideal doctor. “ ==DVD releases==