EBN-Two doctors who treated football great Diego Armando Maradona said “there was not enough equipment to treat him” during the fourth session of his medical team’s trial on charges of negligence that led to his death, according to the Argentine newspaper Pervel.
Criminal Court No. 3 in San Ysidro is hosting the trial to identify the people who killed Maradona. The first person to testify before Judges Julieta Macintosh, Veronica De Tomaso, and Maximiliano Savarino was Colin Campbell Irigoyen.
“I arrived, they were resuscitating him, he had been dead for two hours, and I saw that he was paralyzed and not reacting to anything,” said Campbell Irigoyen, the first doctor to arrive at Maradona’s home after his demise.
Campbell Irigoyen reportedly arrived at the scene after being contacted by psychiatrist Carlos Diaz, one of the seven defendants accused of killing Maradona. The source told the Argentine news agency that Diaz called the security guard to see if there was a doctor in the gated community who could come and examine Maradona.
Another testimony presented last Thursday was that of Juan Carlos Pinto, a doctor specializing in emergency medicine. Pinto confirmed that Maradona’s home “did not have enough equipment to treat the patient.”
Pinto was the one who signed the demise certificate at 1:15 p.m., at which point he broke the devastating news to the family: “They didn’t want to accept his Demise,” he said. The doctor said he used a defibrillator to revive him, but the attempt failed.
“He had been dead for some time, more than two hours, I say this for several reasons: the signs of rigidity he had, and his demise-like posture, which became more apparent after two hours.
What comes next?
Three sessions per week are anticipated during the trial, which may take up to four months. The court will examine expert testimony and medical reports.
