The Nephrology department looks after patients with kidney problems and provides nephrology services to the whole of the state of Himachal Pradesh with population of 6.8 million. The department provides dialysis services for the admitted patients with acute and chronic kidney failure, drug and toxin poisoning. There is a chronic peritoneal dialysis program (CAPD/APD) for patients with end stage kidney disease and follow up medical care for the kidney transplant patients is provided. More than 600 kidney biopsies have been done since the year 2003. Department has planned to develop comprehensive nephrology services viz critical care/ICU and interventional nephrology and to start its own kidney transplant program in future.