A month after the beginning of the trial that seeks to determine if seven health workers are guilty of simple homicide with eventual intent for the death of Diego Armando Maradona, the process has placed special emphasis on clarifying what happened during the last fifteen days of the life of the Argentine idol and what are the factors that triggered in his death on November 25, 2020.
These are the keys to what is going on the process:
Pre -existing pathologies
Experts from different specialties who participated in the autopsy that was practiced to Maradona on the day of his death have listed in different audiences the multiple pre -existing pathologies they found in the body of the star.
The autopsy revealed a liver cirrhosis, a long -standing pulmonary pathology, a “monstrous increase in abdominal cavity”, alterations in their kidneys and in the heart – which according to the experts weighed “more than double than normal” – found a “dilated myocardiopathy” and signs of ischemia.
The accusatory part seeks to demonstrate that these pathologies were underestimated by the medical team that treated Maradona and different testimonies, such as that of the cardiologist Oscar Franco, who treated the former soccer player two months before his death, they pointed out in that regard.
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According to Franco on Thursday in the tenth audience of the trial, Maradona’s header, the accused Leopold Luque, refused in September 2020 to make the star a key cardiological study that “could have evidenced a potential risk.”
The Decision of Home Internation
From November 3 to 11, 2020, Maradona was admitted to the Olivos Clinic, where it was operated by a subdural hematoma.
While there, a meeting was held between relatives, doctors of the Clinic, of the Prepaid Medicine Company Swiss Medical and the accused Leopoldo Luque and Agustina Cosachov in which two alternatives were raised: continue with the treatment of Maradona in a rehabilitation clinic or do it in a house under the ‘home hospitalization’ modality.
Given the pre -existing pathologies of Maradona, the complaint affirms that the domicilia hospitalization for which it was finally chosen was “a way to count it to death” and one of the keys to this process is to clarify who made that decision.
Jana Maradona, daughter of the Astro, said that Luque “said it was crazy to take him to a clinic” and emphatically convinced her to transfer him to the house of the town of Tigre (province of Buenos Aires) in which he died.
Verónica Ojeda’s testimony (Maradona’s ex -partner and mother of her youngest son, also present at the meeting) and at least two WhatsApp messages sent by Luque corroborated Jana’s version.
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“Abandoned to your fate”
The complaint said that Maradona was “abandoned to her fate” by the medical team in charge of caring for it and during the first month of the trial he placed special emphasis on trying it.
“They assured us that he was going to be as if he were hospitalized but in a house and that there was going to be an ambulance always,” said Verónica Ojeda and at least five more witnesses.
A neighbor, however, declared that the ambulance only remained at the door of the home during the first two days that Maradona was there and none of the witnesses said he had seen medical appliances in the house.
In turn, the testimonies indicated that it was impossible for the accused nurses, Ricardo Almirón and Gisela Madrid to warn if Maradona needed something or entered into medical crisis, since they remained in a room too far from his.
In that sense, one of the autopsy experts, Mauricio Cassinelli, assured that Maradona’s heart had unequivocal signs of having crossed a period of agony that – due to the time when the patient was last controlled – estimated, it may have lasted “up to twelve hours”.
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The expert also offered another favorable test to the argument of the complaint, stating that Maradona presented “a generalized edema, from head to toe”, an accumulation of four and a half liters of liquid that, according to the expert, “does not occur from one day to the next” but in “a minimum of ten days.”
The trial will continue next Tuesday, and it is expected to extend until at least the month of July.
With EFE information
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