AKRIT JASWAL HAS BEEN A SURGEON SINCE HE WAS 7.

Akrit Pran Jaswal (born April 23, 1993, Nurpur, Himachal Pradesh) performed his first surgery at the age of seven.

At 12 years old, he is the youngest person to be admitted to a medical university in India (Punjab University).

He has an estimated IQ of 146.

According to his mother Raksha Kumari Jaswal, Akrit was an early starter, skipped the toddler stage and started walking. He started speaking in his 10th month and was reading Shakespeare at the age of five.

Akrit developed a passion for science and anatomy at an early age.


Doctors at local hospitals took notice and started allowing him to observe surgeries when he was seven years old. Inspired by what he saw, Akrit read everything he could on the topic.

Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medical procedure at his family home, at the age of seven. A poor family, unable to pay for regular healthcare, heard about his amazing abilities, and asked if he would operate on their daughter. Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing her fingers to close into a tight fist that wouldn’t open. Akrit had no formal medical training and no experience of surgery, yet he was successful in performing the surgery. He managed to free her fingers and she was able to use her hand again.

He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and he hopes some day to come up with a cure for cancer.