\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Dalma, daughter of Argentine football superstar Diego Maradona, said during the latest hearing in the trial over his death that her father\u2019s psychologist told her that he \u201cwas best left alone\u201d during his home hospitalization in the weeks before he passed.<\/p>\n
The eldest of Maradona\u2019s daughters with his longtime wife Claudia Villafa\u00f1e was the key witness in Tuesday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy sister Gianinna and I had been saying for more than a year that my dad didn\u2019t seem like himself,\u201d Dalma testified. \u201cHe had always been very sharp, and we felt he no longer was. During video calls, he would sometimes stammer.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said she and her sister often felt their father struggled to understand what people were telling him, but that members of his entourage dismissed their concerns as exaggerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat changed on his birthday in 2020, when everyone saw how bad things were,\u201d she added. \u201cSuddenly, we weren\u2019t the crazy ones anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dalma also recalled two meetings with Maradona\u2019s medical team to discuss his treatment after surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Head doctor Leopoldo) Luque suggested that home hospitalization was the best option because my dad wouldn\u2019t want to go to a clinic and it would be a hassle,\u201d she said. \u201cHe presented it as the only viable alternative.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Nobody in charge\u2019 She said alarm bells rang when members of the medical team called the family to ask how to proceed during an episode of food poisoning.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody was taking charge,\u201d she testified. \u201cThey were asking us, though we\u2019re not doctors, to make a medical decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
During the hearing, prosecutor Patricio Ferrari played an audio recording in which Luque, Maradona\u2019s personal physician, said the football legend\u2019s daughters wanted to remove him from his care, described them as self-centered, and argued they would be doing him \u201ca favor\u201d because the rehabilitation plan was doomed to fail.<\/p>\n
Dalma also testified that she stopped visiting her father because psychologist Carlos D\u00edaz advised the family to leave him alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t go to see my dad because D\u00edaz told us it was better not to overwhelm him because of his treatment,\u201d she said. \u201cHe said my father was going through withdrawal and that his psychological plan was to leave him alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that when family members asked whether Maradona might feel abandoned if they stopped visiting and whether that could be dangerous, D\u00edaz told them to \u201cfollow his orders.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Maradona would\u2019ve been granted anything he asked for\u2019 After Dalma Maradona, the next witness was one of the accused, medical care coordinator Nancy Forlini, who was in charge of making arrangements for Maradona to be treated at home after his release from hospital.<\/p>\n
Forlini, who worked for Maradona\u2019s private health services provider, said her work consisted of \u201creceiving a doctor\u2019s order, requesting authorization from the health plan, and processing it once authorization is granted.\u201d<\/p>\n
She insisted she\u2019s not involved in medical decisions, but instead \u201cprovides the service that the treating physician requested,\u201d and that she \u201cdoesn\u2019t know the patients.\u201d<\/p>\n
Forlini also made clear that while the private health services provider will at times assign a doctor to oversee a home care situation, there was no need in this case, as \u201cthere was a treating physician.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember that no medical equipment was requested,\u201d she said when asked about the services required by Maradona\u2019s medical team. \u201cThe only mention was that the attending physicians would be Cosachov and Luque, who requested support from therapeutic assistants and 24-hour nursing care.\u201d<\/p>\n
She also said that, with Maradona being a \u201cVIP patient,\u201d he would\u2019ve been granted \u201cwhatever they asked for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eight people stand accused of failing to administer proper medical care to Maradona, chiefly Luque, as well as his psychiatrist, Agustina Cosachov, and psychologist, D\u00edaz.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The accusation came when a Medical Board found that the treatment he received was \u201cinappropriate, inadequate, and reckless\u201d and that the home care he was put under was insufficient.<\/p>\n
Luque, Cosachov and D\u00edaz, along with Forlini, medical care coordinator Mariano Perroni, designated doctor Pedro Di Spagna, and nurses Ricardo Almir\u00f3n and Dahiana Madrid, were charged with involuntary manslaughter.<\/p>\n
In October 2024, Madrid was granted a trial by jury, rather than Argentina\u2019s established proceedings led by a judge, and faces a separate trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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