Some people say that increasing the number of sports facilities will greatly enhance public health. However, others oppose this view and believe that it will only help to some extent and other more effective measures are required to ensure public health. I strongly support the latter view.
There are people who opine that increasing the number of sports facilities will contribute to the betterment of public health. By this initiative, the government can motivate people to participate in various sports and become physically active and mentally fit. For example, sports will help them to burn out their excess calories and also provide an opportunity to interact with others, which in turn, enhance their psycho-social well-being.
Having said that, the majority of people believe that sports facilities alone cannot ensure the health of people. This is because the public comprises of people of different age-groups right from infants to seniors and it is not possible to ensure the participation of all of them in sports.
On the other hand, facilities like vaccination campaigns, free medical check-up, distribution of health supplements and health education classes at public places will deliver better results. For instance, medical students conduct free health camps at public places on occasions like ‘World Diabetes Day’. Another case in point is the midday meal programme launched by the government of India in 1995. It provides free lunches to students in all government schools with the aim of improving their nutritional status. This scheme has not only encouraged parents to send their child to school but also resulted in enhancement of their health status. Therefore, it is evident that other measures contribute more to public health than sports facilities.
To conclude, though sports facilities enhance public health to some extent, other measures such as creating health awareness and offering free or subsidised healthcare are much more effective. 
 Some
  people
 say that increasing the number of  
sports
 facilities will  
greatly
 enhance  
public
  health
.  
However
, others oppose this view and believe that it will  
only
  help
 to  
some
 extent and  
other
 more effective measures  
are required
 to ensure  
public
  health
. I  
strongly
 support the latter view.
There are  
people
 who opine that increasing the number of  
sports
 facilities will contribute to the betterment of  
public
  health
. By this initiative, the  
government
 can motivate  
people
 to participate in various  
sports
 and become  
physically
 active and mentally fit.  
For example
,  
sports
 will  
help
 them to burn out their excess calories and  
also
 provide an opportunity to interact with others, which in turn, enhance their psycho-social well-being.
Having said that, the majority of  
people
 believe that  
sports
 facilities alone cannot ensure the  
health
 of  
people
. This is  
because
 the  
public
  comprises of
  people
 of  
different
 age-groups right from infants to seniors and it is not possible to ensure the participation of all of them in sports.
On the  
other
 hand, facilities like vaccination campaigns,  
free
 medical  
check
-up, distribution of  
health
 supplements and  
health
 education classes at  
public
 places will deliver better results.  
For instance
, medical students conduct  
free
  health
 camps at  
public
 places on occasions like ‘World Diabetes Day’. Another case in point is the midday meal  
programme
 launched by the  
government
 of India in 1995. It provides  
free
 lunches to students in all  
government
 schools with the aim of improving their nutritional status. This scheme has not  
only
 encouraged parents to  
send
 their child to school  
but
  also
 resulted in enhancement of their  
health
 status.  
Therefore
, it is evident that  
other
 measures contribute more to  
public
  health
 than  
sports
 facilities. 
To conclude
, though  
sports
 facilities enhance  
public
  health
 to  
some
 extent,  
other
 measures such as creating  
health
 awareness and offering  
free
 or  
subsidised
 healthcare are much more effective.