Eight medical professionals accused of responsibility in the death of the football legend, Diego Maradona are to stand trial soon though no trial date has been fixed yet.
Among those accused are a psychologist, a clinical doctor, a medical coordinator, nursing coordinator and nurses.
The accused professionals are Neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and six others. They had earlier appealed a 2022 decision to put them on trial for homicide with potential aggravating circumstances, arguing that they should be accused of involuntary homicide.
Maradona, the football legend died in November 2020 at the age of 60 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, and after decades of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions.
He allegedly died of a heart attack and was found dead in bed two weeks after going under the knife, in a rented house in an exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood where he was brought after being discharged from hospital.
The initial accusation of homicide with “dolus eventualis” holds a person responsible for negligence while knowing that such conduct could lead to death.
Prosecutors accused the medical professionals of being involved in “reckless” and “deficient” home treatment of a patient.
A panel of 20 medical experts convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor concluded in 2021 that Maradona “would have had a better chance of survival” with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility, ValidViewNetwork reports.
