Diego Maradona’s Medical Staff To Face Trial Over His Death

An Argentine court has decided that eight medical professionals will be tried for the death of football legend Diego Maradona in 2020. The court stated that although a date has not yet been determined, it is doubtful that the proceedings will start until next year.

According to a medical board study that was previously provided to the prosecution, Maradona could still be alive if he had been properly admitted to the hospital despite suffering for more than 12 hours and not receiving necessary care.

Three justices from an appeals court in San Isidro, outside of Buenos Aires, supported the prosecution’s allegations that Maradona’s medical staff members committed homicide through negligence.

Leopoldo Luque, a neurosurgeon, and Agustina Cosachov, a psychiatrist, are charged with negligence in Maradona’s care.

Carlos Diaz, a psychologist, Nancy Forlini, Pedro Di Spagna, Mariano Perroni, a nurse coordinator, Ricardo Almiron, and Dahiana Madrid were other members of Maradona’s medical staff.

Following brain surgery two weeks earlier, Maradona, who helped Argentina win the World Cup in 1986, passed away from a heart attack on November 25, 2020, at a rental home outside of Buenos Aires.

Maradona’s post-mortem study revealed that he passed away naturally.

Diego Maradona died aged 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot and after decades of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions.

He was found dead in bed two weeks after going under the knife, in a rented house in an exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood to where he was brought after being discharged from the hospital.

He was found to have died of a heart attack.