Teera Kamat, a six-month-old suffering from a rare disease, on Friday was administered a medicine whose cost is estimated to be Rs 16 crore and for which the Centre had waived off import duty and GST, officials said.

The child suffers from Spinal Muscular Atrophy, also known as SMA Type-1, a rare condition in which a complete breakdown of nerve cells in her brain and spinal cord result in zero control over muscle movement.