San Isidro.- The room where he died Diego Maradona “It was very dirty” for a “newly operated” person and had no defibrillator, a doctor testified on Thursday during the trial in Argentina to determine the responsibility of seven health professionals in the death of the Argentine star of football four years ago.
“The house was very dirty, very messy, especially the room, there was no order or cleaning at least basic to be able to have a newly operated person,” said Colin Campbell, a doctor who was a neighbor of the late star of the Argentine National Team and who called to attend him before ambulances arrived.
Campbell said that on November 25, 2020, when entering the room of the house in the private neighborhood of Tigre (province of Buenos Aires), he found a nurse making cardiac massage to Maradona (60 years) and a custodian making mouth to mouth breathing.
When relieving the nurse, he noticed that the body’s temperature and the mandibular stiffness of the football legend indicated that “he no longer had vital signs a long time.”
“More than one or two hours sure,” Campbell told the judges of the Court of San Isidro, a suburb northern Buenos Aires.
The doctor was called that day at 12 noon by private neighborhood security personnel because the star “had decompensated.”
Juan Carlos Pinto, another doctor who arrived with the first ambulance, confirmed the version of Campbell by stating that the patient was already dead upon arrival.
Pinto said that it was he who communicated the death of Maradona’s ex -wife, Claudia Villafañe, and her daughters, who were already present. “It had been dead for more than two hours,” he said.
“There was nothing that could help a resuscitation, there was no oxygen, there were no oxygen tubes, there was no defibrillator,” Pinto explained, ratifying Campbell’s version.
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The police who testified so far affirmed that there were no “medical elements” in the room.
Maradona, who had periods of excesses during his hectic life, died from a cardiorespiratory crisis at his home in Tigre, where he fulfilled home hospitalization after a neurosurgery.
Seven health professionals (doctors, nurses, a psychiatrist and a psychologist) are accused of homicide with eventual intent, a figure that implies that they were aware that their actions could cause death.
The trial will last at least until July and are expected to declare about 120 witnesses. Prosecutors have not yet said who will testify at the next hearing, scheduled for Tuesday.
The defendants, who defend their innocence, risk between 8 and 25 years in prison.
