JAIPUR: For the treatment of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at the malnutrition treatment centre (MTC), the medical health and family welfare department has decided to give Rs135 per day for stay at the MTC to the parents of the SAM children.

"We have increased the amount from Rs35 to Rs135 from this year," National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) mission director Gayatri Rathore said. The decision has been taken to bring the amount equal to the minimum wages in the state. Rathore said that there was a demand to increase the amount from Rs35 to Rs135 per day. "If he (labourer) works as a labourer than he gets Rs135. If he stays at MTC for his child's treatment, it was a loss of Rs100 for the labourer. So we have increased the amount to Rs135 per day," she said.