AGARTALA, May 2 (TIWN): With the initiative of Tripura Health Minister Sudip Barman and Health Dept, kidney transplantation to be started in Tripura shortly.

The Dept has taken initiative to introduce doctors from other states.

Within 5 months, this transplantation will begin, said Health Dept official.

Sudip Barman is the only Minister who has submitted report card before media twice in last 1 year. No other dept could place a single report card on that.

Recently Health Minister Sudip Barman also had given up his own security in condemnation of increasing attacks on doctors.

Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.