The Marian Institute of Health Care Management organized a debate on 11 Dec 2010. The topic of the debate being “Medical Tourism – India’s Competitive Advantage“.

Word War 2010 - Debate

While those in favor elucidated arguments of Medical Tourism being a sustainable revenue model, those against brought forth contrary viewpoints showing how Medical Tourism can only excacerbate health iniquities and cause an ‘internal brain drain’ in the medical sector.

The debate was judged in favor of those supporting the idea of Medical Tourism with Ashwin Furtado receiving the ‘Speaker of the Day’ prize.

This debate was organized jointly by the PGP1 and PGP2 students and was chaired by Johan D’Silva