Eight medical personnel to stand trial over Maradona death

Diego Maradona [file photo]. Image: ABACA/PA Images Diego Maradona [file photo]. Image: ABACA/PA Images EIGHT MEDICAL PERSONNEL will stand trial for alleged criminal negligence in the death of Argentine football legend Diego Maradona, according to a court ruling made public Wednesday.

No date has been set for the trial of the eight over Maradona’s death in 2020, which prosecutors say was due to “omissions” by his caregivers who abandoned him “to his fate” during home hospitalization. Maradona died aged 60 in 2020 while recovering from brain surgery for a blood clot, and after decades of battles with cocaine and alcohol addictions.Neurosurgeon and family doctor Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, psychologist Carlos Diaz, medical coordinator Nancy Forlini and four others including nurses were placed under investigation.They claim mismanagement by the team had placed the football legend in a “situation of helplessness.

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