A nurse at Maradona’s bedside before his death in 2020, declared Thursday at the trial on the responsibilities of the medical team which supervised him that “the logistics” around the home hospitalization of the ex-Argentinian football star “was not clear”.
Maradona died on November 25, 2020, at age 60, of a cardiorespiratory crisis coupled with pulmonary edema, alone on his bed in a house rented for his convalescence in Tigre (north of Buenos Aires).
Seven health professionals (doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurses) are on trial in San Isidro, near Buenos Aires, for “homicide with dolus eventualis”, i.e. negligence committed knowing that it could lead to death. They face up to 25 years in prison.
“There were things missing to be able to work in the event of an emergency, such as a telephone number to know who to call. Obviously I would have called 911, but the logistics weren’t clear,” said Tamara Mansilla, who only worked one day during Maradona’s 14 days of hospitalization at home before his death.
The nurse also pointed out that “there was not even equipment to monitor vital signs. It was a completely ordinary house. No AED (defibrillator, editor’s note), nor emergency equipment in the event of cardiac arrest,” she said.
His remarks regarding failures in medical equipment are added to the dozen testimonies already heard deploring shortcomings.
“There was no ambulance and I was not informed if there was one in the area,” which, according to Maradona’s family, had been promised by the medical team, she added.
