Petitioner's lawyer, Chanchal Gupta, informed the court that approximately Rs 8 crore have been raised through campaigns run by various non-governmental organisations and charitable institutions. The court stated that the bill from Novartis, the company that manufactured the injection, must be made available to AIIMS for necessary action. The HC noted that even after combining the central government's assistance of Rs 50 lakh and the approximately Rs 8 crore raised through crowdfunding, an additional amount of Rs 1 crore was still needed. It is also open for the state government to find out some way to provide some financial assistance. In this, the motor neurons present in the spinal cord gradually get destroyed, due to which the muscles become weak and start degenerating.