Health is one of the priorities of the country. The Committee visited Cecilia Makiwane Hospital to assess what caused the outbreak and to establish what strategies were used by the hospital to curb the infection in order to prevent it from spreading to other hospitals. One of the Millennium Development Goals is to curb child mortality and maternal mortality by 2015. The Committee thus also wanted to assess if the hospital would meet the Millennium Development Goals as they relate to health, as it was not the first time that a number of infant fatalities had been reported at this hospital.