Chinese victims of tainted milk to receive payments

Here's the lede from Andrew Jacobs' story in the New York Times:

A group of Chinese dairy companies accused of selling tainted milk that sickened tens of thousands of babies has agreed to compensate the victims, the state media announced on Saturday.

China’s Dairy Industry Association, a group of 22 milk producers, said it would provide one-time payments to the families of the children who were sickened or who died after consuming milk tainted with melamine, a chemical compound that is often used in the production of plastics and fertilizers.

The amount of compensation and timing of the payments are not specified in the story, but the fund is also expected to pay the medical expenses incurred by the numerous children who were sickened by the tainted milk.