Maradona requested alcohol and ‘tore out his own IVs’ in days after surgery

Diego Maradona (PA)

The director of the clinic where Diego Maradona had surgery two weeks before his death testified that the Argentine football star requested alcohol during the post-operative period and was difficult to deal with – which made his subsequent recovery in home care inadvisable.

Pablo Dimitroff, medical director of the Olivos Clinic, said that neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque – one of the seven health professionals on trial – requested “a place” so the former player could undergo surgery in early November 2020.