Delhi HC gives six month deadline to MCI to implement community healthcare course
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New Delhi: Delhi High Court has given the Centre and MCI six months to introduce a BSc course to prepare health workers who can practice modern medicine for treating common diseases in rural areas having no doctors, and warned that failure to do so would invite contempt proceedings.
Justice Manmohan issued the direction as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as well as the Medical Council of India (MCI), the apex regulatory body of doctors, had not acted upon their 2010 undertaking given to the court to introduce BSc Community Health for creating healthcare workers and enabling them to provide primary healthcare in rural areas.
The HC said the Centre should consider bringing a new law along with any other option that it may deem appropriate in this regard.
"In the opinion of this court, once the central government has undertaken to introduce the BSc Community Health course, it must take the lead and give the course a firm legal footing and introduce it in institutions and universities run by the central government and also provide help to state governments to introduce the same.
Justice Manmohan issued the direction as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as well as the Medical Council of India (MCI), the apex regulatory body of doctors, had not acted upon their 2010 undertaking given to the court to introduce BSc Community Health for creating healthcare workers and enabling them to provide primary healthcare in rural areas.
The HC said the Centre should consider bringing a new law along with any other option that it may deem appropriate in this regard.
"In the opinion of this court, once the central government has undertaken to introduce the BSc Community Health course, it must take the lead and give the course a firm legal footing and introduce it in institutions and universities run by the central government and also provide help to state governments to introduce the same.
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