Nurse tells prosecutors: Was following orders not to disturb Diego Maradona
Updated On: 16 June, 2021 07:25 AM IST | Buenos Aires | AFP
The panel concluded he "would have had a better chance of survival" with adequate treatment in an appropriate medical facility. Instead, he died in his bed in a rented house in an exclusive Buenos Aires neighborhood, where he was receiving home care.
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A nurse accused of neglect in Diego Maradona`s death told Argentine prosecutors on Monday that he was following orders "not to disturb" the football icon while he slept. Ricardo Almiron, 37, was Maradona`s nighttime carer and was one of the last people to see the World Cup-winning captain alive. He is suspected of lying when he claimed Maradona was sleeping and breathing normally hours before he died. An autopsy revealed he was dying at that time. Almiron is one of seven people under investigation for manslaughter after a board of experts looking into Maradona`s death found he had received inadequate care and was abandoned to his fate for a "prolonged, agonizing period". The football legend died of a heart attack last November at the age of 60, just weeks after undergoing brain surgery for a blood clot.
Almiron arrived just after midday (1500 GMT) with his lawyer Franco Chiarelli at the San Isidro public prosecutor`s office on the outskirts of the capital Buenos Aires. Speaking to journalists after the interview, Chiarelli said Almiron "always treated Maradona as a patient with a complex psychiatric" condition but was never told about "an issue related to heart disease." "He was told by his superiors not to disturb the patient. My client had the wisdom to carry out his tasks without the patient feeling encroached upon, which was something he had to deal with the entire time he was there," Chiarelli added.
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