(1) Whether his department or any provincial departments of health have paid for any students to be trained abroad in the past three financial years; if so, (a) which departments, (b) how many students in each case, (c) in which countries did they study, (d) what did they study for and (e) what were the reasons for sending students abroad; (2) whether his department has conducted a comparative study on the feasibility of training students locally as opposed to internationally; if not, why not; if so, what would have been the cost to train them in each case?