Mumbai: Supreme Court as restricted the height of Dahi Handi human pyramids to 20 feet, but then also doctors says that a fall from this height can also be fatal.

According to the doctors of city’s public hospitals, that each year they see at least 50 cases of injuries, out of which, two to five patients require hospitalisation.

Dr Shubhranshu Mohanty, orthopaedic and joint replacement surgeon, KEM Hospital, Parel, “Spinal and cervical fractures are the most common, followed by wrist fractures and hip dislocation. We have seen many teenagers who have become paralysed”.

Most of them who sustain injuries are found to have consumed alcohol, said doctors from Sion hospital.