A woman pregnant with a girl in Pakistan had a nail hammered into her head by a faith healer who claimed it would ‘guarantee’ that she gave birth to a boy.
The woman arrived at the Lady Reading Hospital in the city of Peshawar with the two-inch nail pierced into the top of her forehead after the faith healer said doing so would ensure she would have a boy.
She initially told hospital staff that she had hammered the nail into her head herself on the advice of the faith healer, before later admitting he had carried out the act.
