Buenos Aires, May 5 (EFE) .- The trial for the death of former soccer player Diego Armando Maradona will continue on Tuesday with the statement of Pablo Dimitroff, director of the Olivos Clinic, where the star was admitted shortly before his death; A hearing that is expected to put the focus on the decision to continue with the care of the Argentine idol at a private home.
The trial, in which seven health workers are charged with simple homicide with eventual intent for the death of the legend of world football, will hold a new hearing this Tuesday in the Oral Criminal Court (TOC) No. 3 of San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
The only testimony that has been announced for tomorrow, so far, is that of Dimitroff, whose statement has been postponed twice for lack of time.
Maradona was submitted on November 3, 2020 to a surgical intervention in the Olivos Clinic by a subdural bruise on the head, and there it remained admitted until the 11th of the same month, the date on which it was transferred to a private residence in the Tigre neighborhood, on the outskirts of the Argentine capital, in which it died on November 25 of that year.
The director of the institution is expected to explain about who made the decision to continue with Maradona’s medical care at a private home, one of the central issues of the trial so far.
In a document that EFE accessed, and that is expected to be discussed at the Audience tomorrow, the authorities of the Olivos Clinic recorded that although they authorized Maradona’s departure, they did not give him the medical discharge.
It is an act that was signed by Dimitroff himself, by the accused doctors Leopold Luque and Agustina Cosachov, by and the daughters of the Astro Gianinna and Jana Maradona and that established that the former soccer player would continue his treatment in a home internment against the recommendation of the Olivos Clinic.
The proposal of the clinic consisted of “continuing the psychiatric, clinical, rehabilitation and toxicological treatment under the modality of hospitalization (income) in a rehabilitation center”, an indication that, according to the document, was not accepted by the astro -treating medical team (charged in this cause) or its family.
On this decision, both Dalma and Jana Maradona, daughters of the Astro, directly responsible for Luque, his father’s header, which they accused of having insisted on home mode as the only viable option.
“The medical monitoring is in charge of the treating medical team and the professionals chosen by the patient and his family, outside (the prepaid medicine company and owner of the Olivos Clinic) Swiss Medical,” concludes the act.
At the most recent audience, the Head of Intensive Therapy of the Olivos Clinic, Fernando Villarejo, declared, who said he was pressed by Luque and Cosachov to deeply sedate the former soccer player for 24 hours during his hospital admission, something he did “in total disagreement.”
“One knows that when a patient silk it to reverse an abstinence process, a more appropriate process is required, with a horizon that does not end in 24 hours,” explained the therapist and then added: “Because there was no horizon, we decided to start using our criteria and lower the dose of sedation.”
In addition to Luque and Cosachov, the psychologist Carlos Díaz, the doctor and coordinator of the company Swiss Medical Nancy Forlini, the doctor Pedro Di Spagna, the coordinator of Nurses Mariano Perroni and the nurse Ricardo Almirón, are judged in this process.
Nurse Gisela Madrid is also prosecuted but will face a jury trial, as requested.
In this process, Judges Maximiliano Savarino, Verónica Di Tommaso and Julieta Makintach must determine if seven of the eight defendants are guilty of the crime of simple homicide with eventual intent, which has a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.
