“Maradona is a very poor patient”

Rodolfo Benvenuti, Surgeon in charge of the final operation of Diego Armando Maradona Shortly before he died, he said Thursday, during a new trial audience aimed at clarifying whether seven health workers were guilty of the death of the Argentine idol, this “He’s a very poor patient.”

“The fact that I’ve witnessed there is a very difficult patient. I don’t want them to do tomography. I don’t want to serve him, he wants to go.”, Benvenuti revealed about the visit he made at Maradona at the Olivos Clinic, where he was run by a subdural hematoma three weeks before his death.

The surgeon went to the clinic at the request of Maradona’s ex -book and best friend Victor Stinfale To check Yes Leopoldo Luque, Neurosurujano who is officially as an Astro doctor and who is charged in the case, is the one who will need to perform the surgery.

The operation is finally conducted by a team -led team Pablo RubinoAlthough Benvenuti is inside the operating room to ensure “Everything passes normally.”

The condition that Maradona placed

By the time he remained in the clinic, Benvenuti witnessed how the former Argentine’s former soccer player refused to undergo a tomography indicated by the medical team.

“I joined a little bit with Maradona trying to do the study, not doing it was meaningless, that it was the most comfortable. There was an exchange for Diego and accepted to do so. He put me as a request to get tomography, he said he didn’t want the people in the hall, that if someone wasn’t studying,” Story

The decision to move him home

Also at Stinfale’s request, Benvenuti attended a well -known meeting day after the operation where it was decided that the star recovery would continue in a house, through a hospital at home where Maradona died days later and the conditions were asked by various witnesses since the beginning of the trial.

“We have a lot of stress on the characteristics that a hospital needs to be at home if it goes next, it needs to have some important requirements to deal with various difficulties,” The surgeon pointed to his testimony.

“To a patient like Diego Maradona, a step forward of any complications that may arise. He added.

About his review that Maradona was a poor patient, the prosecutor’s office asked him. “Finish the inner house and take it to a clinic or hospital”, Benvenuti replied without hesitation.