What are my rights if a hospital in Malta discharges me before I feel ready?

Discharge decisions are generally a matter of clinical judgment by the treating medical team, but this judgment needs to be properly and responsibly exercised, meaning if you genuinely raised specific concerns about your readiness for discharge at the time, and these concerns were not properly considered or addressed by the medical team, this could potentially be relevant to whether the discharge decision itself, and how it was communicated and managed, met the standard of care reasonably expected under principles connected to Article 1031 and 1032 of the Civil Code, Chapter 16 of the Laws of Malta, particularly if you subsequently suffered harm connected to being discharged prematurely. If you experienced any adverse consequences after discharge that you believe were connected to being sent home before you were genuinely medically ready, it would be important to document exactly what happened, including the specific concerns you raised at the time of discharge and how they were responded to, along with details of any subsequent complications or the need for readmission, since this kind of documentation would be central to properly assessing whether your discharge and its management met appropriate standards. Given the genuine complexity of assessing whether a specific discharge decision and its management fell below appropriate clinical and communication standards, this is a matter that would benefit from proper legal assessment, and if the situation caused you real harm, it would be worth consulting a lawyer experienced in medical negligence to evaluate your specific circumstances.