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Doctor flies more than 5,000 miles to work in UK NHS hospital over Christmas
Summary by Ground News
Dr Suresh Damodharan currently works as an endocrinology and general medicine consultant at Sri Ramakrishna Hospital in Coimbatore, India. But for more than a decade he's flown 5,238 miles to the UK to cover shifts at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. Staff have now nicknamed him the 'Christmas fairy' but he said he does it so his colleagues can "take more time off with their families"