ORDER

R.K. Patra, President - Being aggrieved by the order of the District Forum directing the Managing Director, SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela and the Director, Medical and Health Services, Ispat General Hospital, (in short IGH) SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela to pay to the complainant (Trinath Das Mohini) Rs. 3,00,000 as compensation, they have filed C.D. Appeal No. 72 of 1998. The complainant-Trinath Das Mohini has filed C.D. Appeal No. 73 of 1998 contending that the amount of compensation is inadequate. Both the appeals being analogous, they were heard together and are disposed of by this common order.

2. The Steel Authority of India, Rourkela Steel Plant, Rourkela runs the IGH at Rourkela. The complaint was filed alleging that the complainant's son (Manas Ranjan Das Mohini) died due to the medical negligence of the attending doctors of the IGH. His case is that Manas (hereinafter referred to as the deceased ) suffered from fever with a temperature of 1000 F on 13.9.1995. He was taken to Dr. Bishnu Priya Dei for treatment who prescribed certain medicines and advised for pathological examinations. The blood sample was examined for detection of Malaria Parasite, but rep