Seven healthcare staff who handled Diego Maradona are accused of “condemning him to oblivion” by negligence, prosecutors have stated.
The 1986 World Cup winner, one of many sport’s greatest-ever gamers, died in a house outside Buenos Aires in November 2020 following a cardiac arrest. He was 60.
Seven healthcare professionals, together with a neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist and several other medical staffers, have gone on trial for manslaughter after being accused of failing to supply Maradona with enough medical care.
Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari stated their case is that, sooner or later within the two weeks earlier than his dying, Maradona was taken to a home in a personal neighborhood within the city of Tigre, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, with out being in “full use of his psychological schools” to resolve on dwelling hospitalisation.
Mr Ferrari referred to as it “reckless”, including “after condemning him to oblivion in that home… they intentionally and cruelly determined that he ought to die”.
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Mr Ferrari confirmed the court docket an image of the previous footballer mendacity within the mattress the place he was discovered lifeless together with his stomach visibly swollen.
Maradona’s household, together with his oldest daughters, Dalma and Giannina, sat within the entrance row close to Verónica Ojeda, a former companion of the footballer, and Jana, one other of his daughters.
Maradona’s daughter Dalma attended the proceedings. Pic: Reuters
Minutes earlier than the beginning of the trial, Ojeda shared a video on social media of Maradona’s son Diego Fernando carrying a T-shirt with the face of the soccer star, and the phrase “justice.”
The trial might last as long as 4 months and there shall be three hearings per week. If discovered responsible, the defendants, who all deny wrongdoing, might be jailed for 25 years.
Among the many accused is neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, Maradona’s private physician for the final 4 years of his life.
Leopoldo Luque, who handled Maradona during the last 4 years of his life, has denied negligence. Pic: Reuters
Mr Luque operated to remove a blood clot from the previous footballer’s mind simply weeks earlier than his dying.
Psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, who prescribed the medicine that Maradona took till the time of his dying, psychologist Carlos Díaz, coordinator of the medical firm employed to take care of him throughout his hospitalisation, Nancy Forlini, consultant of the corporate that rendered nursing service, Mariano Perroni, Dr Pedro Di Spagna, who monitored his remedy, and nurse Ricardo Almiron are additionally standing trial.
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Gisela Madrid, a nurse who was additionally indicted, shall be tried by a jury later this yr.
