AIIMS, Rishikesh is an institute which strives to provide excellent tertiary patient care, world class medical education and groundbreaking research. Institute aims to mentor students and train so that they represent institute globally as pioneers, to serve as effective deliverers of patient care in society.AIIMS, Rishikesh functions as a “Vishwavidyalaya”, which implies, “Learn from world and also teach world”. Eighty-four visiting professors from all over world reinforce this message.
While there has been improvement in nutritional status and immunization coverage over the last three decades,chronic non-communicable diseases involving various systems are now becoming an important cause of mortality and morbidityin childhood.There is an increasing demand for specialized care of children with chronic diseases. Children with kidney diseases are often diagnosed andreferred in late stagesof the disease. Most of them are not treated appropriately due to lack of expertise and want of diagnostic and therapeutic infrastructure.