UP Doctor Makes 5-Year-Old Smoke Cigarette As Treatment, Probe On

KANPUR A government doctor in Uttar Pradesh has been transferred after a video showed him purportedly making a five-year-old boysmoke a cigarette to “treat” cold, an official said on Wednesday, adding that a probe has been ordered against him.

The doctor was captured in a video purportedly asking the boy, seemingly aged around five, to put a cigarette to his mouth. (Pic for representation)

According to officials familiar with the matter, the incident took place on March 28 when the boy’s parents brought him to the hospital for a cold.