One of the first practical skills you learn as a doctor is how to put in an intravenous cannula, or Venflon, the small plastic tube that sits with one end in a vein and the other taped to the skin ...

A staff nurse of a Thanjavur hospital accidentally cut off a portion of the thumb of a newborn while removing the paediatric venflon (cannula) from its hand on Monday. The incident happened at the ...