Rodolfo Benvenuti, surgeon who supervised the last operation of Diego Armando Maradona Shortly before his death, he said Thursday, during a new audience of the trial that seeks to clarify if seven health workers are guilty for the death of the Argentine idol, which this “He was a very difficult patient.”
“The truth that what I witnessed there was a very difficult patient. I didn’t want them to do the tomography, I didn’t want them to serve him, he wanted to go.”, Benvenuti declared about the visit he made to Maradona at the Olivos Clinic, where he was operated by a subdural hematoma three weeks before his death.
The surgeon went to the clinic at the request of Maradona’s ex -book and intimate friend Victor Stinfale To evaluate yes Leopoldo Luque, Neurosurujano who officiated as a doctor of the Astro and who is charged in the case, was the one who had to carry out surgery.
The operation was finally carried out by a team led by the surgeon Pablo Rubinoalthough Benvenuti was inside the operating room to make sure “Everything passes normally.”
The condition that Maradona put
During the time he remained in the clinic, Benvenuti witnessed how the former Argentine soccer player refused to undergo a tomography indicated by the medical team.
“I participated a little with Maradona trying to do the study, that not doing so made no sense, that it was the most convenient. There was an exchange with Diego and accepted to make it. He put me as a requirement to get the tomography, he said that he did not want people in the hall, that if there was someone did not do the study,” story.
The decision to transfer him home
Also at the request of Stinfale, Benvenuti attended a renowned meeting days after the operation in which it was decided that the recovery of the star would continue in a house, through a home hospitalization during which Maradona died days later and whose conditions were very questioned by different witnesses since the beginning of the trial.
“We had a lot of emphasis on the characteristics that home hospitalization had to have if it was going that side, it had to have certain important requirements to tackle different adversities,” The surgeon pointed out in his testimony.
“In a patient like Diego Maradona, one step forward of any complication that may arise had to be. He added.
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Regarding his analysis that Maradona was a difficult patient, the Prosecutor’s Office asked him what good medical practice indicated in case the patient refused to be treated or observed. “Finish the home internment and take it to a clinic or hospital”, Benvenuti replied without hesitation.
