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A one-and-a-half-month-old boy suffering from pneumonia was branded with a hot iron rod more than 40 times by a "dai" (traditional birth attendant) as a "treatment" for the illness at a village in Madhya Pradesh s tribal-dominated Shahdol district, officials said on Tuesday.
When the child s
When the child's condition deteriorated earlier this month, he was taken to a hospital where the matter came to light. More than 40 scars were found on the child's neck, stomach and other body parts, they said.
A month-old boy was branded with hot bangles all over his body by a faith healer to cure him of pneumonia in Madhya Pradesh, police said today. The incident occurred earlier this month in Hardi village in Shahdol district.