Global Courant 2023-04-20 15:34:07
Three judges upheld a year-old indictment from prosecutors for “reckless and inefficient work” in the player’s treatment.
Eight health workers will stand trial for the death of football legend Diego Maradona after being charged with “negligent homicide”, Argentine media reported on Wednesday.
The football great, who led Argentina to a second World Cup title in 1986, died of heart failure in November 2020 aged 60 after undergoing brain surgery days earlier.
Three judges of an appeals court in San Isidro, a city on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, rejected defense appeals for a lesser charge and upheld a year-old indictment by prosecutors for “reckless and inefficient work” in handling the former Boca Juniors and Napoli player, TV channel TN reported.
Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov are accused of not taking care of Maradona.
Maradona’s medical team also included psychologist Carlos Diaz, doctors Nancy Forlini and Pedro Di Spagna, nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni and nurses Ricardo Almiron and Dahiana Madrid.
According to reports from November 11 to 25, Maradona lived in a rented house outside of Buenos Aires; two nurses accompanied him after he was discharged from the clinic where neurosurgeon Luque performed his operation.
According to El Pais, Maradona’s medical team consistently stated that he was a patient who was difficult to treat. The most recent photo of Maradona, taken 10 days before his death, showed him hugging Luque with a bandage on his head after surgery.
The date of the proceedings has yet to be set, but it is unlikely to start before next year, the court said on Tuesday.
Maradona, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 1986, passed away on November 25, 2020.
His autopsy revealed that he died of natural causes.
Fans gather outside the morgue where the body of late Argentine football star Diego Maradona was taken (File: AFP) (TagsToTranslate)News
