Abstract: Background: Plasmodium falciparum malaria is known to cause serious complication like acute kidney injury (AKI) but now a days Plasmodium vivax malaria is not rare to cause this complication. Many recent reports have shown that P. vivax malaria is also responsible for AKI. There is paucity of data from this region on the profile of AKI in patients of P. falciparum and P. vivax malaria.