The little patient was admitted to the "Bambino Gesù" Hospital
A Falcon 50 of the 31 ° Stormo of the Italian Air Force carried out today, the last day of the year, a humanitarian transport mission from abroad in favor of a 5-year-old Italian child, suffering from a serious disease that entailed the need to an urgent dedicated transport.
The child, who was being treated at the hospital in Las Palmas, Spain, where he resides with his family, was repatriated and transferred to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital in Rome, where he will receive specialized care.
The Falcon 50, which took off from Rome Ciampino airport at 12.00, arrived at Las Palmas airport where the little boy was boarded, who traveled with his parents and with a medical team of the "Bambino Gesù", who provided constant medical assistance during the flight. The military aircraft landed in Ciampino around 15.40 pm, from where the child was quickly transferred by ambulance to the destination hospital.
The flight was requested by the Italian Embassy in Madrid to the Prime Minister, who granted the authorization to transport. The mission was coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of arranging and managing this type of missions through the activation of one of the aircraft that the Force Armata keeps ready, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for this kind of need.
Through its flight departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of intervention by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa.