Two aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force engaged in urgent medical flights this morning. One of the patients is an imminent life threatening infant (IPV)
This morning a child born a few hours and in serious health conditions was transported with the greatest urgency from Cagliari to Rome, to receive specialist care at the Bambino Gesù Hospital.
The transport was carried out by a 50 Falcon of the 31 ° Stormo, which took off from Elmas airport at 9: 20 and landed in Rome after an hour. Here the baby was quickly transported by ambulance to the hospital.
During the morning another 31 ° Stormo aircraft, a Falcon 900, carried a man of 44 years in Imminent Danger of Life from Lecce to Rome, for the hospitalization and specialized care at the San Camillo Hospital.
As required by national procedures, requests for urgent medical transport were received from the competent Prefectures for the territory (Cagliari and Lecce in today's cases) to the Top Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks is to organize and manage health transport for IPV throughout the national territory.
The flight-ambulance, one of the services that the Italian Air Force ensures for the community, requires maximum timeliness and an apparatus active 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready at any time to take off in a very short time, able to operate in adverse weather conditions and capable of embarking specific health equipment, such as thermal cots, or even an ambulance, as in the case of the 24th aircraft Pisa Air Brigade.