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| birth_place = [[Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh|Nurpur]]
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| known_for   = Performing an operation at the age of seven
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'''Akrit Jaswal''' (born April 23, 1993, [[Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh|Nurpur]]<ref>[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060724/himachal.htm The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Himachal Pradesh]{{Dead link|date=April 2013}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=February 2014}}) is an [[India]]n who performed his first surgery at the age of seven.<ref name="imperial">{{cite web | last = Senthilingam | first = Meera | title = Pass me the scalpel, Mummy | url = http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125 | publisher = Imperial College Magazine, London | accessdate = 2007-01-02 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070317200951/http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125 <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-03-17}}</ref>

==Early life==

Jaswal learned to speak, read and write at an early age{{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=October 2014}}.  At five years old, he had started reading plays by [[William Shakespeare]] and books about medicine.  Doctors in his hometown of [[Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh]] started allowing him to watch and learn how to perform surgical procedures.

On November 19, 2000, at the age of seven, Jaswal performed a surgery on an eight-year-old girl.  She had burns on her finger from five years before, and her parents previously had not been able to pay for surgery because they did not have the financial means.  Short videos of the surgery appeared on [[YouTube]] in 2007, and Jaswal became known for this.

== College and publicity ==

Jaswal was accepted into Chandrigarh College{{citation needed|date=June 2015}} when he was twelve years old.  In 2005, "Firecracker Films" brought him to England, to perform tests he also appeared on [[The Oprah Winfrey Show]].  He also received some media attention for declaring that he knows a cure to cancer, though this was met with skepticism and nothing came of it.<ref>[[Mustafa Djamgoz]] has said, "There’s no doubt he is a brilliant boy. He really knows his stuff and has put his heart, soul and mind into finding a cure for cancer. But his solution is not that novel. In theory it could work, but it would be premature to say he has found a cure.”{{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=October 2014}}</ref>

Some{{Who|date=October 2014}} have theorized that Jaswal's fame as a child may actually have been harmful to him{{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=October 2014}}, leading to too much pressure on him as a child{{citation needed|reason=Your explanation here|date=October 2014}}.  Jaswal denied these claims.

==See also==
{{portal|Chandigarh}}
* [[Balamurali Ambati]]
* [[Sho Yano]]
* [[Doogie Howser, M.D.]]

==References==

{{Reflist}}

* https://www.union.ic.ac.uk/media/iscience/old/article_template_typ.php?articleid=125
* http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Little-Geniuses-on-The-Oprah-Show
* http://www.hoaxorfact.com/Inspirational/akrit-jaswal-7-year-old-indian-child-prodigy-performed-surgery-facts-analysis.html
* http://defence.pk/threads/akrit-jaswal-the-seven-year-old-surgeon.192712/
* http://2il.org/akrit-jaswal-youngest-surgeon/

==External links==
* [http://www.five.tv/programmes/extraordinarypeople/sevenyosurgeon The seven-year-old surgeon_]

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| NAME              = Jaswal, Akrit
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Indian surgeon
| DATE OF BIRTH     = 1993-04-23
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = [[Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh|Nurpur]]
| DATE OF DEATH     =
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[[Category:1993 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian surgeons]]
[[Category:Panjab University, Chandigarh alumni]]