Mr Lourens made the briefing and informed the delegation that late referrals remained a problem on high risk cases which leads to maternal deaths which could have been avoided. The remedial action to this challenge was to speed up the functionality of maternity waiting home. The average length of stay (ALOS) is six days and the bed utilisation rate is 75%. Performance was above target due to payment of accruals in May 2013. The hospital had a challenge of broken laundry washing machines and boiler and that they were taking their laundry to Klerksdorp and also using private companies.