Thiru Justice A. Raman, President—The complainant was working as a helper. In the course of his employment, he was involved in an accident where an iron rotation motor fell on his right leg below the knee resulting in fracture of the same. The complainant was taken to the Hindu Mission Hospital at Tambaram. The complainant’s case is that at that time, the staff nurse intersed the needles in the artery while administering I.V. fluid in the right wrist portion and as a result of which the blood started gushing up the tube and this is clearly negligence and inefficiency and on account of the same, the complainant’s two fingers and right index finger became necrotic and gangrene set in as a result of which they had to be removed. Therefore, claiming compensation the complaint had been laid.

2. The Lower Forum dismissed the complaint and aggrieved by the same, the present appeal is preferred by the complainant.

3. The complainant has stated in the complaint as follows: The staff nurse inserted the needles, probably not in the veins but in the arteries at the right wrist portion, as a result of which, instead of glucose dripping from the tube, blood started gushing up the tube. Theref