The trial for the death of Diego Armando Maradona continues. This Tuesday the audience has held a new session in which the decision that the Argentine star recovered from his last operation in a Home hospitalization has been the focus of it.
In this new session of the trial, a revealing recording has been known where one of the accused doctors He urged another to modify the historic clinic of the former soccer player not to be legally responsible for the decision of home hospitalization.
The audience on Tuesday told With the testimony of psychiatrist Ana Marcela Waisman Camposwho was in contact with Maradona’s medical team during his hospitalization at the Olivos Clinic, located on the outskirts of the City of Buenos Aires.
In that clinic, the Argentine star was intervened on November 3, 2020 by a subdural hematoma in the head, and remained there until the 11th of the same month, when he was transferred to a home in Tigre (province of Buenos Aires) to travel there the rest of his recovery.
Waisman Campos declared that he visited the star in the clinic, but that he refused to be treated by her. The doctor also referred to her contacts with Maradona’s psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov, and said she was in contact with her during those days and who discussed the case of former soccer player.
During the hearing, in addition to making conversations between the two about medical issues, an audio sent on November 10 was reproduced by Cosachov to the Maradona Header, Leopoldo Luque, in which she mentioned a recommendation of Waisman Campos to eliminate the participation of both from the medical history of the former soccer player in the decision of home hospitalization.
“This psychiatrist threw some tips that seem to me that they are good about something that we have to put in the medical history before Diego leaves, that you can write it because they put a lot Head doctor ‘as to be legally protected “, The recording begins, in which Cosachov is also heard to warn Luque that the clinical history of the Olivos Clinic indicated that the decision of home hospitalization had been taken together between doctors and the family.
“That legally suited us”
“Then, she suggested me, and the truth is that I respect her a lot in her position, which legally agreed to us, which is really true, make a last evaluation saying that the family, Let’s say, in the face of the different therapeutic options, it is the one who, understanding and understanding the risks of the options, agree and opt for home internment, because legally we are more covered, “adds Cosachov in the recording.
The question of who opted for Maradona to recover in a house instead of a clinic is one of the keys to his death.
The information provided by the witnesses who have declared so far indicates that, while the former soccer player recovered at the clinic, a meeting between relatives, doctors of the clinic, of the prepaid medicine company Swiss Medical and Luque and Cosachov was held in which two alternatives were raised: Continue with the treatment in a rehabilitation clinic or do it in a house under the modality of domiciliary hospitalization.
Given the pre -existing pathologies of Maradona, the complaint affirms that the domicilia hospitalization for which it was finally chosen was “A way to condemn him to death.”
Two of Maradona’s daughters, as well as his ex -partner Verónica Ojeda, declared in the last weeks that Luque was very clear in their recommendation that the former soccer player recovered in a house and discarded the option to intern it -Voluntarily or by force- in a clinic.
“They cheated us in the cruelest way”
“We discuss the 3 options, It didn’t seem so bad because they promised us the same (In household hospitalization) that in the Olivos Clinic, and never happened. They fooled us in the cruelest way, “Dalma Maradona, one of the idol’s daughters, said last Tuesday, who said the conditions of the house in which his father was admitted not to adjust to what they had promised them.
Regarding the housing conditions and the medical treatment he received there, Maradona declared two Swiss Medical workers on Tuesday, who separated the Medicine company Prepaid of the Fallas in Attention to the former soccer player.
In addition to Luque, Cosachov, the doctor is judged in this process and coordinator of the company Swiss Medical, Nancy Forlini, the psychologist Carlos Díaz, the doctor Pedro Di Spagna, the nursing coordinator Mariano Perroni and the nurse Ricardo Almirón.
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.
