The house was a “pigsty”. The phrase describing how they found Diego Armando Maradona at home on the day of his death resonates again and again in the trial that is taking place in Argentina and has the country on tenterhooks. Seven health workers are sitting in the dock accused of being responsible for the death of the soccer star. The trial is entering a key phase with the testimony of several witnesses.
This Tuesday it was the turn of the police officers who were the first to arrive at the house on the day of the death. One of them, Officer Lucas Farias, said that in the room where they found the body there was no sanitary material, something that surprised him very much.
“I did not see any medical equipment in the room” and mentioned the absence of intravenous serum, which, according to him, should have been part of the stay at home. Officer Farias was one of four police officers who testified on Tuesday, a week after the trial began in San Isidro, in the northern region of Buenos Aires. “What struck me most was Maradona’s position on his back and his extremely swollen abdomen, as if it was about to explode”.The ‘theater of horror’, as the lawyer for Maradona’s daughters describes the house in which he received home hospitalization after undergoing surgery in a hospital, is very hard for the Argentine people to accept.
It should be remembered that in the trial seven health professionals are accused of murder who, according to the family’s lawyers, participated in this ‘theater of horror’
It should be remembered that Maradona died on November 25, 2020 while he was trying to recover at home from brain surgery to treat a blood clot. A neurosurgeon, a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a medical coordinator, a nursing coordinator, a doctor and a night nurse are being prosecuted, accused of criminal negligence in the care provided to the former player.
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