However, Cauchi said this isn’t true serious and that his father had a serious productive cough when he was discharged.

“When I moved him from his wheelchair to the car seat, he started coughing productivity,” he explained.

This is Charlie Cauchi’s version of events:

At home, Michael Cauchi fell asleep and slipped out of consciousness. A doctor was called in to check on him, the elderly patient briefly opened his eyes and the doctor told Charlie to call him immediately if he doesn’t wake up.

As the doctor was preparing to leave, Charlie Cauchi’s sister ran up to them and warned that her father was unresponsive, the doctor checked him out again and they called an ambulance.

Michael Cauchi was swabbed again for COVID-19 and doctors at the emergency department told his son that his father had a serious lung infection, but doubted it was related to the coronavirus seeing as he had only been discharged from hospital that same day.

However, the test came back positive and Michael Cauchi passed away while receiving treatment.

‘I Want Justice’

Cauchi said he has reached out to a number of authorities, namely Prime Minister Robert Abela, Superintendent of Public Health Prof. Charmaine Gauci, Health Minister Chris Fearne and the hospital itself, to inquire into the circumstances around his father’s death but has yet to receive a response.

Questions sent by Lovin Malta to the Health Ministry over 24 hours ago remain unanswered.

“Action must be taken against the person responsible for discharging my father,” Cauchi said. “He may have tested negative for COVID-19 upon his initial hospital admission but he was still in his quarantine period and was displaying clear symptoms when he was discharged.”

“If he had died at home, we’d have never known he was positive for COVID-19, the virus would have spread and we’d have never known.”