A person prays in entrance of a sanctuary for the late soccer star Diego Maradona at Argentinos Juniors stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, final November.
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A person prays in entrance of a sanctuary for the late soccer star Diego Maradona at Argentinos Juniors stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, final November.
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Medical doctors, nurses and different medical workers who had soccer legend Diego Maradona of their care at the moment are dealing with a murder trial, after an Argentine decide granted prosecutors’ request to advance the case towards them.
Maradona died of coronary heart failure and pulmonary edema in November of 2020. He had been recuperating from mind surgical procedure, however as a substitute of being in a hospital, was recovering at a house within the Buenos Aires suburbs — and prosecutors say Maradona’s medical doctors and different caregivers ought to have recognized that he was in danger, and executed extra to avoid wasting him.
The defendants are neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luciano Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, psychologist Carlos Ángel Díaz, house care coordinator Nancy Edith Forlini, nursing coordinator Mariano Ariel Perroni, nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid, and clinician Pedro Pablo Di Spagna.
A number of of these charged have publicly denied being liable for Maradona’s demise. Luque, who was the soccer nice’s private physician, has insisted he had little to do with ongoing look after Maradona within the weeks earlier than he died.
In Could, Luque’s attorneys stated that two firms — Medidom and Swiss Medical — have been in command of the house hospitalization, which initially was meant to assist Maradona overcome an dependancy to alcohol.
Questions concerning the circumstances of Maradona’s demise at age 60 prompted a search of Luque’s workplace and the formation of a 20-member medical panel to research. They decided that he died after exhibiting signs throughout a “extended, agonizing interval” that ought to have brought on alarm.
Prosecutors stated Maradona died after “an unprecedented, completely poor and reckless hospitalization at house,” because the Buenos Aires Instances stories.
Decide Orlando Díaz issued his order on Wednesday — the identical day Argentine followers have been commemorating the thirty sixth anniversary of Maradona’s well-known “Hand of God” aim to defeat England throughout a run to the 1986 World Cup championship.
The jersey Maradona wore that day lately offered at public sale for greater than $9 million.
