San Isidro.- Psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, one of those imputed by the death of the legendary Argentine former soccer player Diego Maradonahe defended himself on Thursday at the trial against the medical team of ‘Ten’ by saying, in tears, that he did “everything he could and even more” for his patient.
Cosachov defended the decision to admit Maradona at an address after a neurosurgery, but was disconnected from the medical service responsible for carrying out this hospitalization during which the former soccer player died on November 25, 2020 after suffering a pulmonary edema.
It was the first statement of an accused since the process began on March 11 to determine the responsibility of the medical team in Maradona’s death at 60.
“My role and incumbency was in accordance with my profession, which is psychiatry, and I always acted with total conviction that what I was doing was the right thing,” Cosachov said, crying, before the court of San Isidro, north of Buenos Aires.
Throughout the trial, both the conditions and the relevance of serving Maradona have been questioned in his residence in Tigre, a town near San Isidro, after the operation for a subdural bruise on November 3, 2020.
Cosachov was one of the doctors in charge of signing home hospitalization.
“The objectives which were? Zero alcohol consumption and that the patient took the medication orderly,” said the psychiatrist about the ‘fluff’, who had problems with the drink and had experienced abstinence syndromes after surgery.
He added that home hospitalization was the only viable option due to Maradona’s Caracter and that the decision was agreed with the family and the health provider, but that he noticed in the company an “attempt to delay disabled.”
“Now I have other information that I don’t know before. I can no longer say if the hospitalization was serious or not,” he told the judges.
“They were all responsible”
Dalma Maradona, who went to the room and witnessed last month that his father’s death could have avoided whether doctors “would have done their job,” he told journalists at the end of the audience: “I don’t know if it will work for each other to throw the ball from each other. They were all responsible.”
Several doctors declared at the beginning of the process that the room where Maradona died “was very dirty, very messy” for a newly operated person and lacked defibrillator, among other medical equipment.
An executive of the Medical Services provider declared last month that Maradona’s environment, including Cosachov, had requested weekly medical visits before the former soccer player was transferred to his home.
Doctors, nurses, the psychiatrist and a psychologist are accused of homicide with eventual intent, a figure that implies that they were aware that their actions could cause the death of the patient. If they are found guilty, they risk between 8 and 25 years in prison.
