They claim that Diego Maradona fell and hit his head days before he died, but was not treated

11/30/2020 8:17 AM

• Clarín.com

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Updated 11/30/2020 9:47 AM

Rodolfo Baqué, defender of Dahiana Madrid, the nurse who was at the house in the private neighborhood of San Andrés the day Diego Maradona died, revealed that

, but that he was not taken to the hospital to your review.  

"Maradona fell on Wednesday (of the previous week) before his death. He fell and hit his head, but they

...", said the lawyer.

And he added that he hit the "right side" of the head.

According to what this newspaper was able to find out, from Maradona's environment they maintain that the nurse never recorded that supposed fall in Diego's medical history during the home stay.

The episode was days after the star was operated on for a subdural hematoma on the head, for which he was struck by not being checked.

"When he falls, they pick him up. He was picked up and continued his normal life. But the one who decides if he has to go to be seen is the doctor," he said.

Due to his condition, Baqué stated that "Maradona was not in a position to decide." 

In dialogue with

, the lawyer insisted on the lack of a clinical doctor for his attention: "Maradona was taken from the clinic and

. There was no clinical doctor. ".

Maradona died at his handle in the San Andrés neighborhood, on Wednesday, November 25.

Photo Marcelo Carroll

In this sense, he revealed details of his state of health: "

And we all know that a patient with coronary problems cannot exceed 80. Maradona's body was warning that there were problems with her heart rate and she was not even assisted with any pills ".

"I think an interdisciplinary committee was lacking. No one took note of the warnings that Maradona's heart was giving," he added.

Regarding his client, the lawyer indicated that he

with the star, who only allowed him to review him "once."

"The nurse is a doctor's assistant. She was there to give him the psychiatric medication and take his vital signs. When the patient refuses, she informs the psychiatrist. Everyone knew that Diego was taking the medication but did not receive it at her, "he concluded.

As for the nurse's statement to the prosecutor, where she assured that she heard him move inside the room at 7.30, although he never entered, the lawyer clarified: "She always declared the same thing, both times. What she put in the The report was that the patient refused to be checked, to have his blood pressure taken. She put it on every day because the patient did not want to be checked by her. On Wednesday she did not see Maradona, like every day. She heard him that he got up to go to a bathroom in his room, but did not see it. "

And he continued: "It was as if that day at 9 in the morning she had said that she had been with Maradona. That is not true. What she said was that she put it because it was a generic refusal from previous days. She started that Friday He took his blood pressure that day and never again. "

The witness had stated that

, where she is a member of the staff of nurses who assist people with

or home care, a report in which it appears that that morning he had tried to control Maradona, when reality is that he let it rest. 

In any case, a judicial source explained that "this is what she wrote to the company, but to Justice, the two times she testified under oath to tell the truth, she always recognized that she had never entered the room that morning" .

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