BUENOS AIRES — Seven health specialists who tended to Diego Maradona in the days prior to his death have actually been charged with uncontrolled murder.
Maradona, who led Argentina to success in the 1986 World Cup, passed away of a cardiac arrest Nov. 25 at a leased home exterior Buenos Aires following brain surgical treatment 2 weeks previously. He was 60.
A medical board’s report provided to district attorneys this month concluded that Maradona remained in misery for more than 12 hours, did not get sufficient treatment and might still live if he had actually been appropriately hospitalized.
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, the 2 leaders of Maradona’s medical group, and 5 other health specialists with uncontrolled murder.
A physician, a psychologist, 2 nurses and a nurse organizer were the others.
The medical panel’s report stated “the patient’s signs of risk of life were ignored,” including that Maradona “showed unequivocal signs of a prolonged agony period” of a minimum of 12 hours.
The care that Maradona got at the leased home, the report stated, “did not fulfill the minimum requirements” for a client with his case history, which he would have made it through with “adequate hospitalization.”
Maradona had actually suffered a series of medical issues, some due to excesses of alcohol and drugs. He was apparently near death in 2000 and 2004.
Julio Rivas, a legal representative for Luque, stated previously this month that medical forensics of the report were flawed and “biased… with no scientific foundation.”
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