A patient’s diet right after a surgery is often highly regulated, but that didn’t seem to be the case with football legend Diego Maradona, with one claim suggesting there was an order for hamburgers right after his brain operation. Seven health professionals have been charged with medical negligence in the former Argentina captain’s death on November 25, 2020 at the age of 60. A charge of intentional homicide, if proved, carries a sentence of between 8 to 25 years in prison. “Anything was allowed inside the room. It was embarrassing what happened there. I take responsibility,” Fernando Villarejo, the director of the intensive care unit at Olivos Clinic on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, testified during the trial. Story continues below this ad However, Villarejo claimed helplessness against Maradona’s inner coterie, most prominently neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and psychiatrist Agustina Cosachov, whom he referred to as the “king and the queen”. Luque was Maradona’s personal physician for the last four years of his life, while Cosachov prescribed medication that Maradona took until the time of his …