San Isidro:
The healthcare coordinator in charge of Diego Maradona’s home remedy denied duty for his death when questioned on Monday by Argentine prosecutors, insisting her function was merely “administrative”.
Nancy Forlini, 52, is the fourth of seven men and women beneath investigation for manslaughter to testify in the case that has gripped the nation.
Like the 3 just before her, she pointed the finger of duty at Maradona’s treating physicians.
The 1986 World Cup-winning captain died of a heart attack last November at the age of 60, just weeks soon after undergoing brain surgery for a blood clot.
“I never had access to the medical history made by the treating doctors,” Forlini stated in a written statement handed to prosecutors in San Isidro, a supply close to the case told AFP.
Forlini exercised her correct not to answer queries at the prosecutor’s workplace on the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires.
But her written statement claimed that her job was restricted to managing the care prescribed by Maradona’s basic practitioner Leopoldo Luque and his psychiatrist Augustina Cosachev, each of whom are getting investigated and are due to be interviewed later this week.
Prosecutors opened an investigation soon after a board of specialists searching into Maradona’s death identified he had received inadequate care and was abandoned to his fate for a “prolonged, agonizing period”.
Last week, nurses Dahiana Gisela Madrid, 36, and Ricardo Almiron, 37 — two of the last men and women to see Maradona alive — and nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, 40, all denied duty and likewise told prosecutors they had been following the treating doctors’ orders.
‘No Contact’
Forlini stated her job was “to organize a 24-hour nursing and therapeutic care-giving service” based on remedy prescribed by Luque and Cosachov.
“In this case, it’s very clear that the request was exclusively for care. The possibility of hospitalization, even involuntary, was made available to the treating medical team in case the psychiatrist decided it was necessary,” Forlini stated in her statement.
Forlini stated she had under no circumstances even been to the residence exactly where Maradona received remedy and only spoke to Luque and Cosachov by phone.
“I didn’t even know the patient or the people around him. My contact was with the carers, occasionally with the family and with the treating doctors,” she stated.
Both Almiron and Madrid told prosecutors earlier this week that the residence rented for Maradona did not include the gear important to treat a patient suffering from heart illness.
Both stated they had not been told he suffered from heart illness and had been instructed not to disturb him though he rested.
Maradona had battled cocaine and alcohol addictions.
The former Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli star was suffering from liver, kidney and cardiovascular problems when he died.
Two of Maradona’s children blame Luque for their father’s deteriorating situation soon after the brain operation.
A panel of 20 healthcare specialists convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor stated last month that Maradona’s remedy was rife with “deficiencies and irregularities” and the healthcare group had left his survival “to fate”.
If identified guilty, the seven, who are barred from leaving the nation, could face involving eight and 25 years in prison.
Maradona is an idol to millions of Argentines soon after he inspired the South American nation to only their second World Cup triumph in 1986.
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