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SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh cabinet has decided to fill up 200 vacant posts of Medical Officers (MBBS) on local-specific contracts through walk-in-interviews. The cabinet also gave its nod to upgrade the Community Health Centre, Bagsaid to a 50-bed Civil Hospital in Mandi district. Twenty nine posts of various categories will also be created in the hospital. This comes as a major relief for MBBS doctors undergoing PG courses facing hardship to get bank guarantees.It approved appointment of two medical physicists and four radiotherapist technicians on outsource basis at the Government Medical College, Tanda to operationalise the equipment for cancer treatment. Consent was given to upgrade the Civil Hospital Ani in Kullu district to a 100-bed Civil Hospital along-with creation of 26 new posts.The cabinet also gave its consent to fill up 20 posts of Junior Office Assistant (IT) in the Dr Y S Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni in the Solan district on a contractual basis..