Fernando Villarejo, head of Intensive Therapy of the Clinic where former Fubolist Diego Maradona was last operated, declared Tuesday (29.04.2025) that the accused Leopold Luque, head of the team that treated the legendary athlete in his last days, prohibited the entry of doctors called to evaluate it after the surgery.
“Luque prohibited the entry of doctors who were going to evaluate Maradona: Dr. Mario Schiter and a psychiatrist who had contacted the daughters and reached the clinic,” said Villarejo, therapist chief of the Olivos Clinic, during the trial for the death of the Argentine idol.
In that institution, Maradona underwent surgical intervention by a subdural hematoma in the head on November 3, 2020 and was admitted until the 11th of that month, when he was transferred to a private residence in the Tigre neighborhood, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, in which he died two weeks later.
The professional described that impediment as “strange and extemporaneous” and explained that the specialists, who had been summoned by the former soccer player, sought to determine if Maradona had to be taken to a rehabilitation clinic.
In relation to the star of the star, Villarejo said that he presented “a neurological problem”, in addition to an abstinence picture, which, in his opinion, required a multidisciplinary approach and the entrance to a clinic.
In his statement, the doctor denounced that, when he approached the Olivos Clinic to evaluate his former patient after the operation in the head, he was not allowed to access, but he was able to access his medical history, from which he extracted that the Argentine idol remained “a very complex patient with pluripatalogies of difficult control.”
This position was presented at a prior hearing of the trial by Mario Schiter himself, who declared on April 8 and showed his disagreement with the decision that Maradona continued his treatment in a domiliciary hospitalization.
GS (EFE, La Nación)
