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Maradona: declared the prepaid doctor and complic …

The doctor of the prepaid medicine company who coordinated the care of Diego Armando Maradona at the house in the private neighborhood of Tigre where the former soccer player died almost seven months ago, pointed this Monday against the soccer star’s “personal doctors” by ensuring that They “never” asked him for a home stay and that they were the ones who would make “all the decisions.”

This is Nancy Edith Forlini (52), doctor in charge of the Home Care Management of the Swiss Medical company, who appeared this Monday morning at the San Isidro Attorney General’s Office to be the fourth inquest of the case investigating the death of the former captain of the Argentina World Cup champion in Mexico 86. With his statement he complicated the situation dthe neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov.

Accompanied by her defender, Nicolás D’Albora, Forlini She testified in writing and refused to answer the questions that the three prosecutors in the case, Laura Capra, Patricio Ferrari and Cosme Iribarren, had prepared for her.

In the letter, Forlini explained, in a generic way, that beyond being a pediatrician, his role in the company in terms of home benefits offered by prepaid is administrative.

Then he spoke of the specific case of what happened to Maradona, when, after his surgery for a subdural hematoma, he was discharged from the Olivos Clinic on November 11 and sent to the house in the San Andrés neighborhood where he died two weeks later.

“On the day of discharge, I received the request for home care and the diagnosis was: postoperative due to subdural hematoma. I never received a request for home hospitalization “, the doctor pointed out.

“In this case it was very clear that the application was only for benefits. The possibility of hospitalization, even involuntary, was always made available to the treating medical team, in case the psychiatrist deems it necessary.“, he pointed.

Forlini commented that “the treating doctors offered the family to do the follow-up at home” and that with the suspension “what was initially planned was the referral to a rehabilitation center”, to her alone They asked him to “organize a nursing service and therapeutic companions with 24-hour coverage.”

He explained that Swiss Medical “Despite not agreeing with the patient’s discharge, he could not deny him what his doctors prescribed. “

Then, when stating who had responsibility for Maradona’s treatment, the professional He targeted the two main defendants in the case, the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov.

“They clearly indicated to us that it would be their personal doctors who would make all the decisions and that my sector would cover what their doctors say,” he said in this regard. Finally, he clarified: “I never had access to the medical history made by the treating doctors. “

Like the rest of the defendants, Forlini was investigated for “simple homicide with eventual intent”, a crime that provides for a penalty of between 8 and 25 years in prison, and that could have led the prosecutors to request their arrests, something that did not happen because they were satisfied with being prohibited from leaving the country.

This criminal figure was chosen by prosecutors Ferrari, Iribarren and Capra after six months of investigation, in which They concluded that Maradona’s medical team was not only deficient, but that he knew that the “10” could die and did nothing to prevent it.

Prosecutors considered that Forlini “failed to comply with the minimum duties in his charge, among which was, in accordance with the patient’s chart, to provide the place with nursing staff specialized in mental health, therapeutic support, nutritionist, and appliances suitable for advanced CPR, laboratory studies and electrocardiogram – among others – none of which it provided. “

In addition, they point out that Forlini “failed to analyze whether the house met the minimum conditions for a patient with Maradona’s physical limitations.”

“In full knowledge of the deficient nursing service, he omitted to take any action, being in this way functional to the behaviors that the remaining defendants carried out, As a result of which the aforementioned fateful result was produced, which inescapably had to be represented by the condition he held, “added the prosecutors.

Within the framework of the cause The nurses Ricardo Omar Almirón (38) and Dahiana Gisela Madrid (36), and their boss, the coordinator Mariano Ariel Perroni (40) have already declared.

Meanwhile, next Wednesday the investigation of the psychologist Carlos Ángel “Charly” Díaz (29) is scheduled, for Friday the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov (36) and, finally, for Monday the 28th the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque (39).

The autopsy determined that Maradona died at the age of 60 on November 25 of last year as a result of “acute pulmonary edema secondary to exacerbated chronic heart failure” and a “dilated cardiomyopathy” was discovered in his heart.

A medical board concluded that he was a patient with multiple pathologies who agonized 12 hours before his death, that the house in the country house San Andrés was not a home stay and that he could have had a “better chance of survival” if he had been in a clinic.

In addition, they rated the treating medical team as “deficient”, “reckless” and “indifferent” to the certain possibility of his death and that he was left “to chance”.

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