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Maradona death probe widens to include nurses, psychologist
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 9, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – A psychologist and two nurses who
helped care for football legend Diego Maradona before his death have been
added to a widening involuntary manslaughter probe, a judicial source told
local media Monday.
Maradona died of a heart attack outside Buenos Aires on November 25, weeks
after undergoing brain surgery on a blood clot.
His psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and heart surgeon Leopoldo Luque are
already under investigation, as they were treating Maradona before his death.
The three people newly under investigation must appear before prosecutors
this week, the judicial source told local media.
Investigators are trying to determine if any of the five people who had
Maradona in their care were in any way negligent.
Maradona was suffering from liver, kidney and cardiovascular disorders,
but there were no signs of alcohol or narcotics consumption, according to his
autopsy.
Luque, the surgeon, in November responded to the launch of an
investigation for involuntary manslaughter by saying he did “everything he
could, up to the impossible” for an “unmanageable” patient. A first autopsy
conducted the day Maradona died found he had suffered from liquid on the
lungs with acute heart failure brought on by a disease of the heart muscles
that makes it harder to pump blood.
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