Hetauda, April 12 : The Bagmati State government is preparing to appoint 166 medical workforce including specialists, doctors, nurses and other health workers in different 36 posts. The State Ministry of Social Development is learnt to have been proceeding towards that end.     
The appointments will be made on the contract-basis for those hospitals and health institutions under the subordination of the State government. The Ministry has announced vacancies for three gynecologists, three orthopedic surgeons, five consultant anesthesiologists, four consultant general physicians, one consultant dermatologist, four consultant pediatricians, two consultant pathologists, one consultant micro biologist, five consultant radiologists, five consultant surgeons, five consultant psychiatrists, two for public health administration, two for education health administration and one for nursing administration. The appointments will be of ninth level.    
Similarly, under the eighth level, it will be appointing 17 medical officers, two dentists and three Ayurved doctors.    
 The Ministry has demanded two nursing officer, two physiotherapists, and two pharmacy officers, six medical lab technologists, three junior nursing officers, 10 public health officers, and one biomedical officer for seventh-level appointments. A dental hygienist, anesthetic assistant, pharmacy assistant, biomedical technician, medical recorder supervisor, assistant dietitian , staff nurse, health assistant lab technician will be appointed in the fifth level and an auxiliary nurse midwife, auxiliary health worker and a lab assistant in the fifth level.