The Committee enquired what the causes of fatalities were of the babies that were admitted to the ward in 2006. The doctor in charge of paediatrics informed the Committee that the babies had been on ventilators which stopped working as a result of a power failure thereby causing the demise of the babies. In response to a query about the human resource capacity of the ward, a nurse complained that they were short staffed with only 24 professional nurses allocated to the ward, instead of the required 40 professional nurses. Due to poor infrastructure the nursery unit was also part of the neonatal ward instead of being a ward on its own.