Maradona's Death Was Blamed On A Neurosurgeon And Seven Members Of The Medical Team
Prosecutors have charged seven members of the medical team treating him with murder, arguing that Maradona's life could have been saved but that the medical team had neglected his treatment.
A team of experts investigating the star footballer's death has charged seven people, including Maradona's neurosurgeon.
The investigative team also raided the neurosurgeon's home and a private clinic where they gathered evidence, believing that they had found enough evidence to prove the doctor's guilt.
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According to the report, two weeks after Maradona's brain surgery, he suffered a heart attack which proved fatal. The report said that the threat to the life of the star footballer was ignored and proper medical care was not given in his last days.
According to the prosecutor, Maradona's death was not due to unintentional or negligence, but his medical team knew he might die, but they did not try to save Donna.
The other six accused include Maradona's psychiatric months, along with two nurses and other medical professionals.
Maradona's medical team has been banned from leaving the country and could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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Maradona, Argentina's star footballer, died in November last year.
Prosecutors investigating the death of Diego Armando Maradona imputed Wednesday to seven people for alleged "homicide with eventual intent" and cited them to submit a preliminary statement, judicial sources told Efe.
The Attorney General of the Buenos Aires town of San Isidro also requested the judge of guarantees in the case, Orlando Díaz, to prohibit the accused from leaving Argentina.
The defendants, who will begin to give an investigative statement from next day 31, are all health professionals who attended Maradona, who died on November 25.
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Those who will be investigated as accused are the nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid; the coordinator of the nurses, Mariano Perroni; the doctor who coordinated the home hospitalization of the former soccer player, Nancy Forlini; the psychologist Carlos Ángel Díaz; the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov; and the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, designated as Maradona's family doctor.
Prosecutors were investigating these professionals under the hypothesis of an alleged wrongful death.
But they finally decided to charge them for alleged murder with eventual intent, a crime for which penalties of 8 to 25 years in prison are foreseen , after receiving earlier this month the report of the medical board where eleven experts evaluated the circumstances of the death of "The ten".
From the report, whose content was disseminated by local media, it is concluded that the performance of the health team that assisted Maradona was "inadequate, deficient and reckless" and left "the patient's health status to chance.
The autopsy on the body of the former captain and former Argentine national team determined that he died as a result of "acute lung edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure." They also discovered a "dilated cardiomyopathy" in his heart.
Maradona, 60 years old and suffering from alcohol addiction problems, had been admitted to a clinic in La Plata on November 2 for anemia and dehydration and a day later he was transferred to a sanatorium in the Buenos Aires town of Olivos, where shortly after arriving he was operated on for a subdural hematoma on his head.
On November 11, he was discharged from the hospital and moved to a house in a private neighborhood on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where he died on November 25.
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