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A medical student who graduated from the University of Manchester is to become the first ever doctor in his rural village in Nepal. Kanchha Sherpa's home is only served by a midwife and anyone who wants to see a doctor has to trek for several hours to the capital, Kathmandu. Kanchha will work on a medical bus, treating the local population of around fifteen hundred people. In this extract taken from Â鶹Éç Radio Manchester's Indus programme presenter Talat-Farooq Awan speaks to Kanchha to find out more about his incredible story...