Rishikesh, March 20 -- AIIMS Rishikesh and Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, jointly organised the first national conference of the Indian Society of Hypoxia & Mountain Medicine from 17 to 18 March at the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering.

The conference was organised under the Chairmanship of Prof Latika Mohan, Head of the Department of Physiology, AIIMS Rishikesh, and Colonel Anshuman Bhadauria, President of Indian Society of Hypoxia & Mountain Medicine (ISHHM) and Principal, Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi. The organising team comprised Col Surinder Pal Singh, Col Rakesh Verma, Prof Zahid Ashraf and Dr Jayanti Pant.

The first national conference of the ISHMM, on the theme 'Man in the Himalayas', aimed to ex...