WhatsApp messages between Maradona’s children and the doctors who treated him

“In conclusion, I think we should think about getting a GP”, wrote in a WhatsApp group Dalma Maradona at 11:40 on the 14th of this month, when his father, Diego Maradona, He had been in the house in the San Andrés neighborhood, in Benavídez, in Tigre for three days, after being operated on for a “subdural hematoma”. His interlocutors were his own Sister Gianinna, his Italian brother Diego and the psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, who last witnessed the star of world football.

Shortly after that WhatsApp message from Dalma, Diego Junior asked if the new doctor “will walk with Leopoldo Luque”, the neurosurgeon who had been treating Maradona for four years and who had operated on the star on November 3. Maradona’s eldest daughter replied: “Leopoldo is a neurosurgeon and what we are talking about is a general practitioner”.

In one part of the conversation on WhatsApp, Cosachov –that in case the circumstances of Maradona’s death were investigated, she stated as a witness – she asked if they wanted her to contact the doctor and proposed someone who was also a toxicology specialist and who had seen Diego prior to hospitalization. To this Gianinna replied: “I’m going to start the investigation”. That was also commented on in WhatsApp chats the 60-year-old former footballer just asked for “more privacy”.

This exchange, added to other elements, gives us a glimpse of the heart of the concern of the heirs of the legendary captain of the Argentine team: how to take care of Maradona in his convalescence after the operation and given the underlying problems that complicated his health, with which how many resources to make them and, above all, who would be professionally in charge of these efforts. The suspicion that there may have been negligence in the special care that Maradona required (given his economic situation and his past) is precisely the axis of the investigation for alleged culpable death that is borne by the prosecutor of Benavídez Laura Capra and the Deputy Attorneys General of San Isidro, Patrick ferrari Y Cosme Iribarren.

The decision to form a special team of investigators was made by Attorney General of San Isidro, John Broyad, shortly after learning of the shocking death of Maradona, last Wednesday.

Therapeutic continuity

The nation from Argentina he also had access to the document that signed Maradona’s release from the Olivos Clinic, where he had been operated on for a “subdural hematoma”; in that document it was recommended, as necessary, to establish continuity of treatment after leaving the medical center.

“Swiss Medical prepaid proposed to continue with psychiatric, clinical and rehabilitative and toxicological treatment in the manner of admission to a rehabilitation center with a psychiatric support team, but the proposal was not accepted by the family”, was recorded in The document.

In the following paragraph, according to the minutes, “the treating medical team (Leopoldo Luque and Cosachov) prescribed and the family accepted the follow-up and home medical care of the patient and asked Swiss Medical to accompany him with the nursing care at home and therapeutic accompaniment. ”The document is signed by Luque, Gianinna and Jana Maradona and by a representative of the Olivos Clinic.