On Friday afternoon, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the band ‘The Who’ visited the New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to celebrate the launch of a new Teen Cancer America facility, named ‘The Lounge’. The new facility is mainly dedicated to young adults and teenagers.

The facility got financial support of $1 million that was raised by the band during a special concert in New York City a couple of years ago.

While addressing the event’s attendees, including media persons, hospital staff, patients and family members, Daltrey said, “We find that a psychologically happy and socially happy patient will survive the rigors of the disease and the medicine a lot, lot better than one that’s miserable. And that’s what this is out to do”.

The recreational space, spanning over 800-square-foot, has a modern design, and provides an area to the young patients where they can do whatever they want. They can relax, talk, socialize with others, can play video games, surf the Internet, study, and engage in other activities. The communal space also features books, a dry graffiti wall, and board games.

The Lounge has become the latest one in a series of similar Teen Cancer America-funded facilities functioning in numerous medical centers throughout the US.

When Daltrey was asked about what was the reaction of young patients to the areas, he said that the teens they have met so far, in last four or five years, since when they have started doing all this, are quite behind it, and what all of them do is smile, which is superb.

Daltrey and Townshend signed an electric guitar during the press event that has been placed in a special display case in The Lounge.

While speaking to media, Townshend said that he was feeling superb to witness a project like this one, which he and Daltrey helped fund, meeting completion.