A baby was burnt with iron rod to 'cure' her of pneumonia

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The infant, who was just 40-days-old, was rushed to hospital in a critical condition on Tuesday.

Dr AP Singh, the doctor treating the child, said she was being treated for severe burn wounds on the chest which were inflicted with hot iron rod.

The baby's parents, Seema and Jagdish Prajapati, from Ujjain, in central India, told doctors their daughter Shivani was taken to a healer by her grandmother.