Buenos Aires, Argentina:
Diego Maradona’s private doctor and six other caregivers accused of neglecting the football icon in his final days, will be questioned by Argentine prosecutors from Monday.
The seven have been placed beneath investigation for manslaughter soon after a board of specialists searching into Maradona’s death discovered he had received inadequate care and was abandoned to his fate for a “prolonged, agonizing period”.
The football legend died of a heart attack last November at the age of 60, just weeks soon after undergoing brain surgery for a blood clot.
An investigation was opened following a complaint filed by two of Maradona’s 5 children against neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, whom they blame for their father’s deteriorating situation soon after the operation.
A panel of 20 health-related specialists convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor stated last month that Maradona’s remedy was rife with “deficiencies and irregularities” and the health-related group had left his survival “to fate”.
The panel concluded he “would have had a better chance of survival” with sufficient remedy in an acceptable health-related facility.
Instead, he died in his bed in a rented home in an exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood, exactly where he was getting home care.
“I did my best”
The other individuals beneath investigation are Maradona’s psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, 35, psychologist Carlos Diaz, 29, nurses Ricardo Almiron, 37, and Dahiana Madrid, 36, nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni, 40, and health-related coordinator Nancy Forlini, 52,
Over two weeks from Monday, they will seem one by one just before prosecutors, accompanied by defense lawyers, to reply to the allegations against them.
The hearings, postponed from last month due to a spike in Coronavirus situations in Argentina, will finish with Luque, 39, on June 28.
A judge will then make a decision regardless of whether the matter should really go to trial in a method anticipated to last months, even years.
All seven accused are prohibited from leaving the nation, and threat among eight and 25 years in prison if convicted.
Luque has repeatedly defended his actions, saying “I did my best. I offered Diego everything I could: some things he accepted, others not.”
The medical doctor is in search of a dismissal of the case, and says Maradona had been depressed in his final days.
“I know that the (coronavirus) quarantine hit him very hard,” Luque has stated.
Maradona had battled cocaine and alcohol addictions in the course of his life.
The former Boca Juniors, Barcelona and Napoli star was suffering from liver, kidney and cardiovascular issues when he died.
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.
His death shocked fans about the world, and tens of thousands queued to file previous his coffin, draped in the Argentine flag, at the presidential palace in Buenos Aires amid 3 days of national mourning.
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