An professional panel in Argentina is investigating whether or not medical negligence contributed to soccer icon’s dying final 12 months.
Tons of of Argentines protested on Wednesday to demand justice within the dying of Diego Maradona, as consultants met earlier this week to analyze how the soccer legend died and whether or not there had been any medical negligence in his case.
Demonstrators donned Argentinian soccer jerseys, held banners and flags emblazoned with Maradona’s face, in addition to a cut-out of the famous person, throughout a rally in central Buenos Aires, the capital.
“He didn’t die, they killed him!” the organisers of the rally mentioned in supplies despatched out on social media. “Justice for Diego. Trial and punishment of the responsible.”
Thought-about one of many world’s biggest soccer gamers, the 60-year-old died in November after struggling a coronary heart assault within the metropolis of Tigre.
Maradona holds godlike standing in his dwelling nation after main Argentina to a World Cup title in 1986, and tens of 1000’s of Argentines poured out into streets after his dying to pay tribute and say goodbye.
Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo, reporting from Buenos Aires on Wednesday, mentioned the protesters “are satisfied that Diego Maradona’s entourage – the people who surrounded him earlier than his dying – are accountable” for his dying.
“Individuals blocked this street… There’s a lot of police. There’s been some small clashes between the police and followers,” Bo mentioned.
On Monday, a medical board convened by Argentina’s public prosecutor met to analyse Maradona’s dying on November 25, simply weeks after he underwent mind surgical procedure on a blood clot.
Investigators are whether or not members of Maradona’s medical group didn’t adequately deal with him and whether or not to convey a case ahead for wrongful dying, a conviction for which may lead to a jail sentence of as much as 15 years.
The panel of consultants, made up of 10 official specialists and 10 extra chosen by the events, is because of ship its findings in two or three weeks.
Maradona’s neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov and psychologist Carlos Diaz are underneath investigation in addition to two nurses, a nursing coordinator and a medical coordinator.
“Prosecutors in Argentina are satisfied that his entourage are chargeable for his dying,” Bo reported.
In late December, an post-mortem confirmed that Maradona – who had battled alcohol and drug habit for a lot of his life – didn’t devour alcohol or unlawful narcotics within the days earlier than his dying.
It revealed that he had issues along with his kidneys, coronary heart and lungs, nevertheless.
Maradona additionally had taken seven totally different medicines to deal with despair, nervousness and different illnesses, an official instructed the Reuters information company at the moment.