GUANGZHOU: Sanlu Group and the 22 other firms involved in the melamine-tainted milk scandal should establish a fund to pay for victims' medical treatment, a lawyer for one of the affected families said yesterday.

"A compensation foundation is very necessary, and Sanlu and the 22 other companies should finance it," Chen Beiyuan, a lawyer representing several victims in Guangzhou, told China Daily.

One of them is 1-year-old Zhang Zhuoyu who contracted kidney stones after drinking Sanlu milk formula.