Eight health workers on trial in Argentina for the death of Diego Armando Maradona , which occurred on 25 November 2020 due to a heart attack, when El Pibe de Oro was 60 years old.
With the investigation concluded, a San Isidro judge indicted the eight, including a family doctor neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist, a nursing manager and some nurses.
The prosecution had reported deficiencies and negligence in the care of the former soccer star, recovering at home on the day of his death . Maradona, who died alone in a residence north of Buenos Aires, was recovering from neurosurgery. He suffered from kidney and liver problems, heart failure, neurological deterioration, and addiction to alcohol and psychotropic drugs.
The charge for the eight is of " simple murder with possible intent ", they risk sentences ranging from 8 to 25 years. During the trial they will be free, the prosecutor has not asked for pre-trial detention.
According to the prosecutors, the staff in charge of looking after Maradona had been "the protagonist of an unprecedented home hospitalization, totally lacking and reckless", and had committed a "series of improvisations, mismanagement and defaults".
An expert opinion, as part of the investigation, had concluded that the former player had been " abandoned to his fate " by his medical team, which had led him to a slow agony.
Those directly involved reject the accusations: Leopoldo Luque , a doctor in Maradona, said he was "proud" of what he did, stating that he "tried to help" the former champion.
(Unioneonline / L)
