SAN ISIDRO.- a daughter of Diego Maradona declared on Tuesday that the Argentine star’s family doctor promoted the home confinement that ended with his death in 2020, by testifying in the trial against the health team that cared for him in his last days.
Jana Maradona30 years old, was referring to a dialogue between the main defendant, the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luqueand the family of the former soccer player, in which it was decided that Diego Maradona He will continue his recovery at home after undergoing surgery for a subdural hematoma on November 3, 2020.
“He told us that we had only one bullet and that we had to decide well what to do. The house was going to be like a rehabilitation clinic, but friendlier for my father. I felt it was the best decision,” Jana said in a court in San Isidro, 30 km north of Buenos Aires.
He also said that Luque maintained that Maradona would not agree to be admitted to a clinic.
“They told me that it was going to be a serious hospitalization, that (the private health company) Swiss Medical I was going to be completely at my dad’s disposal,” continued the former soccer player’s third daughter.
The trial that began in April seeks responsibilities in the medical team that accompanied Maradona in that home confinement, which ended on November 25, 2020 with the death of the idol at the age of 60 due to pulmonary edema and cardiorespiratory arrest.
The process analyzes both the conditions and the relevance of the hospitalization that Luque promoted to the detriment of a rehabilitation center proposed by doctors at the clinic, where the neurosurgery was performed, his daughter said in a statement lasting almost four hours.
At least a dozen witnesses described that home in Tigre, next to San Isidro, as dirty and poorly equipped for medical care.
Pandemic effect
The psychologist Carlos Diaz He declared, in turn, that “the pandemic meant a great emotional downturn” for the world star, who, he said, suffered from bipolar disorder and narcissistic personality, in addition to addictions to alcohol and psychotropic drugs.
In addition to Luque and Díaz, five other health professionals face charges of homicide with possible intent, which implies that they were aware that their actions could lead to death. They could face up to 25 years in prison. An eighth defendant will be tried separately.
