David Whittet Photo: supplied
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Risking a vaccination campaign in India against government orders puts a New Zealand doctor at great risk in the 1990s. That's the thumbnail description of a novel written by New Zealand GP David Whittet.
The Road to Madhapur may be fiction, but David tells Lynn Freeman it includes many aspects of his own time working in India, and also in rural practice here at home.
In the novel, Theo gets in trouble when he tries to take unapproved, vital medicines from New Zealand into a developing country. Disillusioned, he heads to India to try and make a difference as a volunteer doctor.
Which is where he meets Elisha, the daughter of missionaries who's determined to help her parents' impoverished patients.
The Road to Madhapur by David Whittet is published by CopyPress
