A seventy-year-old man, in imminent danger of his life, was transferred to the Sant'Anna hospital in Castelnovo ne' Monti thanks to a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of Ciampino
The emergency medical transport of a patient from the Vito Fazzi Hospital in Lecce, in imminent danger of life due to heart failure, with a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, based in Ciampino, ended this afternoon. .
The flight, directed to Bologna airport, allowed the patient, accompanied by a medical team and a family member, to reach the Sant'Anna hospital in Castelnovo ne' Monti more quickly, in the province of Reggio Emilia.
Emergency medical transport is one of the institutional activities that the Air Force carries out at the service of the community. The flight, defined in this case as "IPV - Imminent Danger of Life", was activated at the request of the Prefecture of Lecce to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command. This immediately affected the 31st Wing, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this type of mission.
The Air Force's flight departments are available to the population 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of ensuring the transport of patients, organs, medical teams and ambulances even in complex weather conditions.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of intervention by the planes of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia.