LUCKNOW, March 16 -- Over 200 road accident cases - almost double the usual number - turned up on Holi in the emergency wards of government-run hospitals in Lucknow, including Balrampur Hospital, Lok Bandhu Raj Narayan Hospital and King George's Medical University (KGMU), officials said.

According to KGMU records, on Holi, 135 RTA (road traffic accident) patients were brought into the emergency care ward, the medical university's spokesperson Dr Sudhir Singh said.

"On a regular day, we get anywhere between 75 and 80 patients from road accidents," he said. Several patients with minor eye injuries sustained while playing Holi also came in, with KGMU reporting 37 such patients.

The emergency ward at Balrampur Hospital saw 13 cases of RTA....