In the early afternoon of today 17 March, a one-year-old boy in imminent danger of life was rushed from Cagliari to Genoa on board a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo dell'Aeronautica Militare.
The small patient, accompanied by a specialized medical team, was then transferred to an ambulance to be admitted to the Giannina Gaslini Children's Hospital.
The request for transportation, as happens in these cases, has come from the Prefecture of Cagliari to the Situation Room of the Summit of the Air Squad Command, the operating room of the Air Force that has among its tasks that of organizing and managing this kind of transport on all the national territory in coordination, precisely, with the Prefectures.
Missions of this type need maximum timeliness. Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate in any meteorological condition to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today , but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Every year thousands of hours fly by the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino, the 14 ° Stormo di Pratica di Mare and the 46 ° Air Brigade of Pisa, always on the front lines in case of emergency.