A nurse accused of Maradona’s death warned that they were not prepared
Mariano Perroni, who coordinated Diego Armando Maradona’s nurses and who is accused in the trial for his death, had warned psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, also accused, that the house where the star spent his last two weeks was not equipped to deal with an emergency, as revealed by an audio shown at the hearing this Tuesday.
“Thinking about the future, in an emergency case we are not in a good position. It cannot be that there is not a way, a serum,” Perroni warned on November 13, 2020, twelve days before the idol’s death, in an audio message sent to Cosachov, one of the doctors responsible for Maradona’s health.
In that audio, Perroni also records that the request for an “emergency kit” was also conveyed to Nancy Forlini, coordinator of the home care area of the private medicine company Swiss Medical and also accused in the trial, and adds: “It costs nothing to be prepared.”
Perroni was in charge of nurses Ricardo Almirón and Dahiana Gisela Madrid, also accused in the case and accused of documenting checks on Maradona that they did not carry out.
From November 11 to 25, the day of his death, the star received medical treatment in a house on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. The conditions of this domiciliary modality are the central object in this trial.
The first witness at Tuesday’s hearing was surgeon Rodolfo Benvenuti, who at the beginning of November of that year was summoned to evaluate the idol before head surgery and who, after the operation, made some recommendations for Maradona’s home care.
“I suggested 24-hour monitoring of vital signs, temperature, pressure, a care protocol such as how much he urinates and in what period, if he has edema. Also equipment in case he needed it, anticipating any situation, orthopedic bed, defibrillator, oximeter,” said Benvenuti.
According to numerous witnesses, the house did not have basic medical equipment or a highly complex ambulance at the door as the family had been promised.
Benvenuti also offered details about the intervention that the former soccer player underwent on November 3 for a subdural hematoma and stated that Leopoldo Luque, the star’s primary neurosurgeon and the main defendant in the case, said that operating on Maradona “was the opportunity of his life.”
In previous instances of the trial, other specialists who evaluated Maradona stated that their recommendation was to maintain “an expectant behavior” regarding the hematoma and that operating on it was not a priority.
The psychologist Carlos Díaz and the doctor Pedro Di Spagna are also tried in this process, while the nurse Madrid will be tried in a separate process at the request of her lawyer.
