Argentina’s 1986 World Cup champion Maradona passed away on November 25, 2020, while receiving home care in the Buenos Aires suburbs.
According to a cardiologist’s testimony on Thursday, Diego Maradona was deemed a “high-risk patient,” and the decision-makers at the clinic where he had surgery just days prior to his passing suggested that the former captain of the national team should recuperate in a rehabilitation center instead of a private residence.
In his testimony to the court attempting seven medical personnel for the alleged negligent killing of the former footballer, Sebastián Nani, chief of cardiology at the Olivos Clinic, stated that the patient was a high-risk individual who was exhibiting withdrawal signs and needed substantial treatment.
The 1986 World Cup champion Maradona passed away on November 25, 2020, while receiving home care on the suburbs of Buenos Aires, just days after having surgery to remove a hematoma that had developed between his brain and skull. His age was sixty.
The choice to transport Maradona to a private residence after the surgery rather than admitting him to a rehabilitation facility was also questioned by his ex-wife and a physician last week.
The prosecution’s main piece of evidence against the defendants is the shortcomings in Maradona’s home care.
Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, two of the accused who were close to the former player, suggested that the hospitalization continue in a private residence in the town of Tigre, which is nearly 40 kilometers from the capital. Nani drew attention to the disagreements between hospital officials and these two individuals.
Outside of the clinic, the cardiologist claimed that “Maradona’s responsibility rested 100% with Luque.”
For the final four years of his life, Luque served as Maradona’s personal doctor, and Cosachov wrote prescriptions for drugs that Maradona consumed until his passing.
Along with Luque and Cosachov, other defendants in the case include psychologist Carlos Díaz, physicians Nancy Forlini and Pedro Di Spagna, nurse Ricardo Almirón, and Mariano Perroni, who works for the company that supplied the nursing service.
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