The baby, with severe respiratory failure, was transported to an incubator on board a Falcon 900
A little girl of just one month old, hospitalized at the San Francesco hospital in Nuoro with serious respiratory failure and in need of urgent transfer to the Gemelli hospital in Rome, was transported today evening with a Falcon 900 of the Air Force.
For the ambulance flight, requested by the Prefecture of Nuoro, a crew and an aircraft from the 31st Wing of Ciampino were used, one of the flight departments of the Armed Forces which ensures 24 hours a day, all year round, aircraft and crews ready to take off in a short time for this type of mission.
After contacts between the Prefecture, the hospital where the little girl was hospitalized and the Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room which has the task of initial coordination in these cases, the crew was activated in readiness and in time Very limited, he took off from Ciampino airport for Olbia to board the little girl, who traveled in an incubator and was constantly assisted by a medical team.
Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are ready every single day of the year, 24 hours a day, to ensure, where required and deemed necessary for reasons of urgency, the medical transport of people in imminent danger of life, organs or medical teams or, as in this case, people in need of transfer to specialized treatment centers throughout the country. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this kind of intervention, in support of citizens, by the aircraft of the 24st Wing of Ciampino, the 31th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 14th Air Brigade of Pisa. Where there are specific operational needs, the Air Force also employs the helicopters of the 46th Wing of Cervia.