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UK artist Shizzio recently took time out of his schedule to experience an eye-opener and meet and hang out with some of his fans at the Great Ormond Street Hospital.

After being contacted by the brother of Zain Sudagar, one particular patient at the hospital, Shizzio decided to pay his fans a visit. Shizzio tells us how the patients, most just children, some even babies, had to make use of a dialysis machine 4-5 hours a day, 3 times a week. The artist humbles himself in saying he is not a very well known musician, however that the kids were overly excited and happy to see him. Shizzio said, One girl was 4yrs old... So cute it was unbelievable... These tubes in her neck and she was acting like it was nothin’ and just smiling.

Zain Sudagar is just one of many patients who are in need of a kidney. The 16 year old was diagnosed with kidney failure at just 12 months of age, and has since underwent paediatric dialysis at home as well as making regular visits to the hospital, some being overnight stays, and other being weekly. After just under 7 years, Zain suffered severe rejection of one of the new kidneys, resulting in him having to be re-admitted to hospital where tests confirmed that the kidney had no function. After being operated upon on numerous occasions, Zain has been on dialysis now for approximately 3 years, awaiting a kidney donor.

All the money in the world can't prepare you for what these kids go through and I was just in one ward!! What a humbling experience. – Shizzio, via Twitter.

Statistics show South Asians are a worrying 3 to 4 times more likely to need a kidney transplant than the rest of the general population. The NHSBT (National Health Service: Blood and Transplant) site, reads, South Asians make up 4% of the population, but nearly 14% of those registered as waiting for a kidney transplant are Asian and only 1% of those on the NHS Organ Donor Register are of Asian ethnic origin.

- Rei Khan