(1) Whether his department has a comprehensive register of the number of people who have multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in the country; if not, why not; if so, what are the testing procedures for MDR-TB; (2) whether these tests are being conducted directly on suspected patients or only on those who would have failed to respond to ordinary TB treatment; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) what is the total number of known registered sufferers of MDR-TB and (b) what are the further relevant details; (3) (a) how many cases does his department have on its records in respect of the 8 000 cases of MDR-TB that were reported each year through the National Health Services Laboratory and (b) for how long have these records been collected; (4) (a) what is his department doing to alert (i) the public and (ii) those who would be sufferers of the dangers of the disease, (b) which are the most affected areas in each province and (c) what are the reasons in each case?