Falcon 900 transports 71 year old man from Alghero to Bologna, then leaves for Lecce and embarks 47 year old patient headed for Rome
Five life-saving flights in just a few days for the aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force. An urgent double transport for two patients in need of specialist care concluded a few minutes ago.
The double air rescue involving a Falcon 900 from the 31st Wing of Ciampino ended a few minutes ago. The aircraft carried out the first urgent transport on the Rome Ciampino-Alghero-Bologna route, from here it continued towards Lecce, to take on board a second patient. Both patients needed to quickly reach specific hospital facilities to receive life-saving specialist care.
The first of the two medical transports ended around 17pm. The Falcon 00, which left Ciampino, home of the 900st Wing of the Air Force, headed to Alghero to allow the boarding of a 31-year-old man hospitalized at the University Hospital of Sassari and in need of reaching him as soon as possible the Sant'Orsola Polyclinic in Bologna. Having arrived at the Emilian airport, the aircraft resumed operational readiness, this time for the benefit of a 71-year-old man hospitalized at the Cardinal G. Panico Hospital in Tricase (LE). Arriving at the military airport of Lecce around 47 pm and boarding the patient, the aircraft took off for Ciampino, where it landed after about an hour's flight. Here the man was transported by ambulance to the San Camillo Forlanini Hospital in Rome. Both patients received in-flight care from a medical team.
With today's double intervention, five medical flights were carried out in just a few days for patients in need of urgent specialist care. In fact, on Friday 2 February it was the case of a 48-year-old man transported from Lecce to Bologna, on Monday 5 February that of a 61-year-old man from Reggio Calabria to Bari, and yesterday, Tuesday 6 February, that of a child of 10 years old, transported from Lecce to Florence.
Today's double mission, requested, respectively, by the Prefecture of Sassari and, subsequently, by the Prefecture of Lecce, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Squadron Command, the Air Force operations room which has among its tasks also include activating and managing urgent medical transports, through the aircraft and crews that the Armed Forces keep in a state of readiness, 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this type of need.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in difficult weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of their lives, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Every year there are hundreds of flight hours carried out 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.
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