“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat forever.” A free clinic embodies this proverb; it will not only help the sick but also educate our youth about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Being unskilled, children and teenagers make health changing decisions; some beneficial, some life­threatening. Regarding this, the most helpful facility that targets the youth is a medical center, because it too healthy generations, educates the adolescents about the mind and body, and combat the harmful effects of drugs.

Particularly, a children’s infirmary would best aid in the War on Drugs.
Ecstasy and other “club drugs” are at their peak rates of use in a decade. The drug trade has flourished into a million dollar industry under this demand by our youth.
Entire communities and towns have been ravaged by this organized crime and the effort to destroy it. But like all business, drugs are only as strong as their demand.
A medical center for our youth would play a pivotal role in the movement to destroy drugs, by educating and discouraging our the teenagers of our society about narcotics we will directly save our adolescents from life­threatening side effects and indirectly make our community safer by ridding it of drugs and the crime associated with the trade.

Equally, a youth medical institution is also a great place to encouraging safe and healthy lifestyles among minors. HIV, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases are still very real threats to the lives of our next generation, especially with unprotected sexual activities being on the rise. Along with this, our modern capitalist society has created a obesity epidemic, leading to cases of diabetes, high cholesterol, and poor cardiac health in younger and younger children. The urgency of these threats to our youth’s health call for more mediums of promotion on the local level, and a medical center is a flawless way of getting expanded outreach of campaigns of Play60, myfoodpyramid.gov, and even campaigns led by the children of our own community who want to spread the importance of making good health decisions. Though some may argue that such a bold response to a peril far away may be too much, too fast. These positions can be easily refuted by the fact that in
2012, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.
This number is growing by the month, each day we do not take action, we subject more children in our own community to harmful long term effects such as, heart problems, type ll diabetes, osteoarthritis, and several deadly cancers. We must act with purpose if we are to erase this epidemic. The importance of this establishment

cannot be overstated, obesity, STD’s, and other health problems are in every community affecting countless teenagers. In essence, the positive effect of a free medical center on our youth can not be overstated. The medical center may not be a water park or sports field, but what is better: joy for a few moments, or joy from a lifetime of good health. The potential benefit of educating and training teenagers in the value of a healthy lifestyle will set them up for success later in life and allow them to focus on themselves and what they want to become and not what their body has become.