Maradona trial: witness testimony could spell trouble for Cosachov | OneFootball

This Tuesday, hearings will continue with testimony related to Diego Maradona’s hospitalization and subsequent transfer to home care. Psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov is once again at the center of attention.

The trial over Diego Maradona’s death continues this Tuesday with testimony from three doctors from Olivos Clinic, where the former footballer underwent surgery to drain a subdural hematoma in his head, 22 days before his death.

One of the summoned witnesses is Pablo Rubino, a neurosurgeon from the team that operated on the former athlete. He had been scheduled to testify last Thursday, but it was postponed until today.

In his previous testimony, Rubino gave details about the operation and the tests performed on the patient beforehand. “I remember that the values were not entirely good, but it was a procedure that had to be done,” he said at the time.

Also summoned is Pablo Dimitroff, former director of Olivos Clinic, who in last year’s trial spoke about the days Maradona was hospitalized and how it was decided to transfer him to a gated community in Tigre.

The doctor implicated Leopoldo Luque and Agustina Cosachov, two of the seven defendants charged with “simple homicide with eventual intent,” and said that the two of them were the ones who decided that his recovery should continue under home hospitalization.

He also recalled that, because of Maradona’s alcohol withdrawal, the doctors asked for him to be kept sedated without any kind of follow-up treatment having been agreed upon.

Luque and Cosachov speak before entering the hearing room (Photo: TN)

“Luque and Cosachov would ask us to do something to keep the patient calm and would limit themselves to saying ‘please, sedate him, do something so he won’t be like this.’ He had to be sedated, but it’s one thing to sedate him as part of a stage that is monitored, and another to sedate him and then have nothing afterward,” he said.

Meanwhile, Ana Marcela Waisman Campos, a psychiatrist who was called in after the surgery, was also summoned. In the previous proceedings, the professional said she did not treat Maradona, but that she did speak with Agustina Cosachov, one of the seven defendants in this trial.

At that time, a controversial audio message Cosachov sent to Leopoldo Luque was made public, concerning advice she had received from her colleague.

Agustina Cosachov, in the trial that was annulled. (Photo: REUTERS/Francisco Loureiro)

“This psychiatrist gave me some tips that I think are good regarding something that we need to put in the medical record before Diego leaves, which you can write because they keep putting a lot of ‘primary doctor, primary doctor’ so that you are legally protected,” Cosachov said.

The goal was to have it recorded that the decision for home hospitalization had been made jointly with Diego’s family, and was not solely a medical initiative: “She suggested to me that legally it was better for us to do one final evaluation, stating that the family, when faced with the different therapeutic options, is the one that, understanding and being aware of the risks of the options, reaches an agreement and opts for home hospitalization, because legally that gives us more protection.”

On trial in the proceedings, in addition to neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, are nurse Ricardo Almirón, psychologist Carlos Díaz, head of nurses Mariano Perroni, clinical doctor Pedro Pablo Di Spagna and the health plan’s coordinating doctor, Nancy Edith Forlini. All are charged with the crime of “simple homicide with eventual intent.”

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