The medical treatment reserved for Diego Maradona “was terrible, that’s why he died“This was stated by Matias Morla, the former lawyer of the Argentine champion, after giving his testimony in the trial on the death of the legendary football idol.
“Diego swelled and swelled, poor thing, until when his heart exploded“Morla told the press as he left the prosecutor’s office in San Isidro, on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires. The medical treatment Maradona received” was terrible, that’s why he died, “he said after having testified for more than three hours on the circumstances of the former footballer’s death.
Maradona passed away on 25 November 2020, aged 60, two weeks after leaving the Olivos clinic on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where he had been successfully operated on for a subdural hematoma of the head. On the bench of the defendants there are seven health workers, including the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, in a dossier labeled “simple manslaughter“, an offense that includes penalties from 8 to 25 years of imprisonment.
According to the indictment, Maradona received “insufficient” care from members of the medical team who, even knowing that he could die, would not have done anything to prevent it. The medical commission of 20 experts determined that Maradona agonized for hours and “was abandoned to his fate“, while he estimated that the medical team led by neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque applied “inadequate treatment.”, deficient and reckless “.