(1)Regarding the placement of interns and community service medical personnel for each of the different medical categories, including but not limited to doctors, nurses and environmental health practitioners, since 1 January 2019 up to the latest date for which information is available, (a) what total number of foreign nationals who studied in the Republic (i) applied for placement and/or allocation, (ii) were successfully placed and (iii) in which cycle were they placed, (b) what are the details of the backlog of placements and (c) how has his department assisted the students and/or interns to successfully complete their training in cases where they did not get placed;
(2) how does his department inform foreign nationals who seek to study medicine in the Republic of the fact that they might never be placed and thus be unable to qualify in their chosen medical fields?