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Few dramas are able to pique my interest, especially because I assumed that Good Karma Hospital would just be like many other medical dramas. I also started watching from the middle of season one, so I had little expectation of this show. At the point of publishing, I’ve still not watched it from the beginning. If you have any idea where else I can watch it at my own pace, please do let me know????

Former doctor-turned-screenwriter Dan Sefton drew inspiration for Good Karma Hospital, especially from his younger days in the medical field when he worked in South Africa. The Englishman Sefton was born to a civil servant and a medical doctor.

The series centres on Ruby Walker, who moves to South India from England to start a new life, after coming across a job advertisement for an opportunity in a hospital, run by an expatriate.

Filming locations are actually within Sri Lanka.

Along with the characters and eye-opening scenes, I find the ending theme for the series a good match. You not only want to listen to it till the end, but it also keeps you in suspense, waiting for the subsequent episode(s). Thanks should go out to the English composer Ben Foster.

Though it can be a challenge to catch the dialogue and twang at times, the issues discussed in the show are thought-provoking, particularly when a stereotype is brought up and then squashed. Different aspects of life in a developing country are also portrayed on television so that viewers get a more complete perspective – the good, the bad, and the ugly. There are two things that I picked up from watching this series, which are to never take a) your health and safety and b) those close to you for granted.

There are six episodes each season. From discussions online, there is a third season.

Cast members include Amanda Redman, whose father used to serve in the British Indian Army; and Amrita Acharia, whose father is a gynaecologist and mother an architect.

The series is currently on one of the channels on pay-TV for those watching in Malaysia.