The death of Maradona: Diego's dramatic last minutes, according to the story of the nurse who tried to revive him

06/17/2021 9:53 AM

• Clarín.com

• Police

Updated 06/17/2021 10:10 AM

The statement was extensive and with precise details.

Dahiana Madrid (36) spoke for six hours before the San Isidro prosecutors who are investigating the death of Diego Armando Maradona (60).

The 42 pages of his story have data that even six and a half months after the death of the Ten (and with everything that is already known) continue to surprise.

Madrid said that since November 13 she no longer had direct contact with Maradona, who was doing her work although the patient and her environment kept her at a distance after a situation in which Diego had asked that he did not want to see her anymore.

In the letter, to which

Clarín

had access

, the nurse describes Maradona's last hours on that morning of November 25.

And it is clear that the lack of control was total.

A medical and personal treatment very distant from that required by any sick person, whatever it is called.

"On November 25 I knew that Dr. Cosachov was going to come, it was 10 in the morning so I had to give her the medication, I sent a message to Agustina (Cosachov) to see what time she would arrive because

the order was don't wake him up

and others then it was to enter the room only once. Agustina told me she was on her way, she and Carlos Diaz (psychologist) arrived. They started talking to Jony (Espósito) and Maxi (Pomargo), we were all outside in the gallery, they explained to him what they wanted to make Diego want to get out of bed, Agustina modified the medication, I prepared it, and we went to the side of the gallery. The psychologist got up and we were going to enter, they told me not to enter and I stayed with Romina (Rodríguez, better known as "Monona", cook) preparing breakfast because if she was going to wake him up, it was time to feed him .. . ",

He relates in reference to what happened that morning at the house in the San Andrés neighborhood, in Tigre, where a kind of "home stay" had been set up to attend to Diego.

Elsewhere in the statement, Madrid makes it clear that the context was not right for medical care, missing appliances and arrival at Diego was a daily problem.

The nurse's story continues.

"The patient did not respond, they stayed for five minutes, they leave and say he does not wake up, he does not answer, I look at the balcony door and tell Jony we give him the medication, Jony and Maxi come in and I do not know which of the two says that the The patient was unconscious. I entered the room,

the patient was unemployed

, I get on top of the bed to revive him, I uncover him, I touch him. I had one arm fallen off the bed.

Agustina didn't know what to do.

I start to do the maneuvers and I ask them to call the emergency or the ambulance and I keep doing the maneuvers, I ask the security to make the CPR more efficient to do mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, I explain how to do it, how to put the face, mouth. At one point I don't remember who brings the phone on speakerphone and it was Luque. I started talking to Luque and I told him that the patient is unemployed, I continue with the resuscitation maneuvers. Then

a man with a stethoscope arrived who later I learned was a medical neighbor in the neighborhood

, I said to continue doing CPR, when the security officer got tired he changed with Romina, she did a little bit and the security came back, I kept doing maneuvers, in a moment

Agustina did a little while and she was not doing the maneuvers well so I told her that I was still ... "

The presence of Madrid in the San Isidro prosecutor's office occurred according to the order established for the series of seven inquiries, which had a first day with the testimony of the nurse

Ricardo Omar Almirón (38)

, a nurse on the night shift, who gave his version on Monday, and that in a first stage will end on Monday 28 with Diego's neurosurgeon and general practitioner,

Leopoldo Luque (39)

.

Back to what happened this Wednesday, the nurse continued with the details of that critical moment.

"

The first ambulance arrives, a doctor and a nurse. At one point someone brought a bag with medication to do advanced CPR, hydrocortixone, taural, and I don't remember if there was any other drug in the bag. The ambulance doctor requests that a track be placed on the patient, they had arrived with two briefcases, and I was in, but the nurse had to act, but he was stopped, I opened a briefcase and began to take things out, I took out the I needle the serum, I placed the line, the doctor began to ask for the medication to be given, he did not know where the drugs were, adrenaline went away, the doctor asked to intubate him. I took a tracheal tube out of one of the briefcases I put him in and gave it to the doctor, he couldn't intubate him. After the ambulances arrived, I stayed in the room doing everything they needed,

I asked please to intubate him, because they had to give him oxygen and it couldn't be done.

At one point I left the room and told Jony and Maxi that the doctors wanted to stop the maneuvers, to say no because you never want a patient to die.

They kept trying, another doctor entered to intubate him, he couldn't, they looked for smaller tubes, then a doctor came out, spoke with the family and at one point they said that it was already there and gave the time of death. "

"How could I want to kill him?"

The woman testified this Wednesday before Judge Orlando Díaz and prosecutors Patricio Ferrari and Cosme Iribarren.

As

Rodolfo Baqué, a lawyer from Madrid,

told

Clarín

, the woman elaborated on Maradona's day-to-day life and what was happening in that house, which she arrived at on November 11 after being discharged from the Olivos Clinic.

"She went that Friday the 13th, she bathed him and, according to what the other nurse says, it was the last time Maradona was bathed," Baqué said.

The lawyer also said that the following Monday, Diego kicked the nurse out of the house.

"Everything was fine when he sanitized him. On Monday at 8.10 when he entered, he greeted him and he said

'What are you doing, kid, here? Go away,'" he

added.

Madrid went out and stayed outside the house, but Maradona opened the door and asked him to leave completely.

"No, you're leaving here," the idol told him, according to the nurse's statement.

"She had to go to the car, on the street," said Baqué.

The lawyer said that "everyone, even the daughters," learned of that episode and that then they told him that

"he only had to give him the medications

so that Maradona would not self-medicate."

Madrid also said that when he showed up for work, while Maradona was hospitalized, they did not give him "not even an epicrisis", that in Tigre's house "there was no apparatus" and that there was no diet either.

"They gave him sandwiches," he

said.

"The day Maradona fell, she said she had to have a CT scan and they told her no, as far as the press could say," Baqué said.

When asked who made the comment, the lawyer explained that it was Maxi Pomargo, Diego's assistant and brother-in-law of Matías Morla, his lawyer.

"During the investigation, all the chats were also demonstrated in which they wanted to blame her (for death) and put her in the center," said Baqué.

The chats he refers to were between the psychiatrist Cosachov and the psychologist "Charly" Díaz.

And between Díaz and the neurosurgeon Luque.

"Luque tells Díaz: 'You're going to ruin a girl who tried to save her life,'" said the lawyer.

And he added that

"between Cosachov and Díaz they gave false information to the press

that the nurse lied."

Baqué anticipated that in the next few days he will present a request for dismissal from Madrid.

The cause, the charges

Like the other six defendants, the Medidom company nurse is charged with "simple homicide with eventual intent", a crime that

provides a penalty of 8 to 25 years in prison.

That criminal figure was chosen by prosecutors after six months of investigation in which they concluded that Maradona's medical team was not only deficient, but also knew that the "10" could die and did nothing to prevent it.

In their call for an investigation, the prosecutors attributed both Madrid and the other accused nurse, Almirón, who declared on Monday, not having assisted Maradona "knowing his delicate situation and knowing that this omission could cause his death." , having carried out "deficit checks and / or reviews" and having acted "in clear complicity with the criminal purpose of the plan" devised by other defendants.

In her first statement as a witness, Madrid explained that that morning of November 25 she never entered Maradona's room to let him rest because she knew that the psychiatrist and psychologist would come at noon, and related how she herself led the CPR maneuvers that were unsuccessful.

Prosecutors summoned her again when they discovered that she had written a report for Medidom stating that that morning she had tried to control Maradona and that he had refused.

In that second testimonial, on page 161,

Madrid acknowledged that this report was trucho and that he did so at the request of his supervisor

, Mariano Ariel Perroni (40), another of the defendants summoned to be investigated for next Friday.

"I made a report at Maradona's house, after having declared in the prosecution because that is what Mariano, the coordinator, told me. I said that I tried to take his vital signs and he did not let me, but the truth is that that did not happen", he declared at that time.

Madrid said that that day only at 7.30 he heard him "wandering" and interpreted that it was Diego going to the portable toilet "because of the sound of the chata."

He also charged at the device mounted in the house, stating:

"We did not have oxygen or medication. That is why we did mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

We did not have elements for unemployment cases."

This Monday, his partner in nursing duties, Almirón, complicated the situation of his boss Perroni, of the Swiss Medical prepaid doctor Nancy Edith Forlini (52) and of the psychiatrist Cosachov, by stating that none of these three defendants were He worried about the cardiological situation of the "10", nor did he provide the background or medical history of the patient.

"At all times he was tachycardic.

I reported it on the nursing sheet and WhatsApp group. They did not give me directions," said Almirón, who also assured that there was no necessary equipment in the house for an emergency situation.

After Madrid, the investigation schedule will continue on Friday 18 with Perroni;

on Monday June 21 with the doctor Forlini;

on Wednesday 23 with the psychologist Carlos Ángel "Charly" Díaz (29);

on Friday the 25th with the psychiatrist Cosachov;

and on Monday the 28th with the neurosurgeon Luque.

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