Yesterday evening a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force landed at Genoa airport to carry out the emergency medical transport of a child of only 11 months of life who, hospitalized at the San Francesco Hospital of Nuoro, needs specific life-saving treatments at the Gaslini pediatric hospital.
The mission was carried out by an Air Force crew who took off from the Ciampino military airport in the early afternoon, home of the 31st Wing, to Olbia airport to embark the little patient with the medical team and the mom.
The emergency transport was requested by the Prefecture of Nuoro and took off on the orders of the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, which also has among its tasks that of activating and managing this type of emergency.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides means and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened in this case, but also 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, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia which these days they are constantly engaged in supporting the population of Emilia-Romagna hard hit by the heavy floods.