Delhi High Court has given the Centre and Medical Council of India (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.<br/><br/>Justice Manmohan issued the direction as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as well as the 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.<br/><br/>The High Court said the Centre should consider bringing a new law along with any other option that it may deem appropriate in this regard. <br/><br/>The court in its order also said that students who graduated in the course have to be given a right to independently practice modern medicine to treat common diseases as identified in the curriculum to achieve the intent, purpose and objective behind the undertakings.