Diego Maradona’s medical personnel to face homicide trial for criminal negligence

Diego Maradona’s medical personnel to face homicide trial for criminal negligence
June 23, 2022, 10:50 am

Maradona died at the age of 60 on November 25, 2020 due to a cardio-respiratory arrest at a house outside Buenos Aires. (File photo: AFP)

The Alarabiya English reported, citing the Associated Press, an Argentinian judge ruled on Wednesday (June 22) that eight medical personnel involved in the care of soccer star Diego Maradona will face a public trial for criminal negligence.

Brain surgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov are among those who will stand trial for homicide, the judge ruled. The trial is not expected to begin until the end of 2023 or early 2024.

The defendants are accused of failing to take proper care of Maradona when he was recovering from surgery, which led to his death.

Maradona died at the age of 60 on November 25, 2020 due to a cardio-respiratory arrest while he was recovering at a house outside Buenos Aires from surgery for a blood clot on his brain.

Diego Armando Maradona, an Argentine professional football player and manager (Photo: Facebook)

A few days after his death, Argentine prosecutors began an investigation into the doctors and nurses involved in his care. In 2021, a medical board appointed to examine Maradona’s death found Maradona’s medical team acted in an “inappropriate, deficient, and reckless manner."

It also determined that the footballer “would have had a better chance of survival” with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility, according to the court ruling.

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Prosecutors requested in April that Judge Orlando Díaz put those under investigation on public trial.

Maradona’s autopsy said he died of natural causes, but Argentina’s judiciary started investigating the case after pressure from Maradona’s family.

Source: alarabiyaenglish

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