Institute of Kidney Diseases (IKD), established in 2007, is first of its kind specialised tertiary care hospital in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, which proved to be a very successful model for other specialties to follow the trend.The success of IKD can be attributed to the visionaries, who envisaged its need, to the senior clinicians, who contributed to its development and then running it. Certainly, the contribution of other medical and auxiliary staff has also been vital in this whole process