"His heart exploded", more details about Maradona's death are revealed
The trial opened in Argentina against the medical staff who attended to the former Pibe de Oro in the last weeks of his life is increasing suspicions that they did not help him as needed.
For this reason, the medical staff risks a sentence of 8 to 24 years. What emerges is the story of a man "tortured" physically and mentally by wrong medications, who in those days only dreamed of a normal existence.
The trial into the death of Diego Armando Maradona opened with the same emotions as the days following the death of the greatest footballer of all time. And it will be as painful an ordeal for those who loved him as the last days of the great Diego's life were.
The last twenty days of Maradona's life, from his birthday to his death, tell the sad and dramatic story of the former Pibe de Oro. He died on November 25, 2020, after almost a day of agony, prey to his demons, abandoned, mistreated, filled with psychotropic drugs, exhausted by a health condition that worsened over time, also due to very severe heart pain.
"His heart exploded, which had enlarged to the point where it weighed twice as much as normal, with functionality reduced to 38%..." These words spoken by his former lawyer, Matias Morla, would be enough to explain the condition in which El Diez was.
And why, in light of the findings of the investigators and the reports of the specialized medical commissions, the magistrates who conducted the investigation into his death decided to bring to the dock all those who, including the doctors (the figure of Diego's doctor and friend, Leopoldo Luque is central) and the nurses who worked around his person. The charge is for intentional homicide but with a series of aggravating circumstances for medical negligence with sentences that range – for various reasons – from 8 to 24 years.
The reality that emerged in court is both infuriating and regretful because Maradona could have been saved. Despite his body suffering from a lifetime of excessive abuse and the use of equally heavy medications, he would have had a better chance of survival if he had been admitted to a multi-purpose health center that would have guaranteed him a care regimen suited to his needs.
Considering the overall picture, a clinic was needed not only for the body, but also for the psychiatric one. Maradona's rehabilitation after the last surgery on his head (a subdural hematoma, a blood clot between the brain and the skull was removed) "should have been carried out in a proper institution," experts said, and not in home conditions or improvised clinics. /TCH
