The patient was transported with a Falcon 50 aircraft from the 31 ° Stormo to be admitted to the Infant Jesus of Rome
The flight of the Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force has just ended, carrying a baby just one month old in imminent danger of life. The transport, which took place with the utmost urgency from Cagliari to Ciampino, ended with the patient's hospitalization in the “Bambino Gesù” hospital in Rome.
The Falcon 50, one of the assets that the Air Force keeps ready every day and at any time for urgent medical transport, took off from Ciampino airport to embark the patient in Elmas with a special term cot together with a family member and a medical team to ensure assistance during the flight. After leaving the Sardinian city, around 11.45 the plane landed at Ciampino airport at 12.45, from where the little patient was transferred by ambulance to the hospital.
The medical flight was activated, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, from the Top Situations Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which is responsible, among other things, for the coordination of this kind of activity in favor of of the civilian population throughout the national territory.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force makes available vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate in any weather condition to ensure urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today , but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this kind of intervention by the aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino, of the 14 ° Stormo of Pratica di Mare and of the 46a Air Brigade of Pisa.