The emergency medical transport of a nine-year-old patient from the Garibaldi National and Highly Specialized Hospital of Catania to the Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute in Bosisio Parini (LC) ended in the early afternoon today. The child was transported with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, based in Ciampino.

The flight, which boarded the child in Catania accompanied by a medical team and his mother, then left for Bergamo airport, to quickly reach the hospital in Lombardy.

Emergency medical transport is one of the institutional activities that the Air Force carries out at the service of the community. The flight was activated at the request of the Prefecture of Catania at the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its functions also that of arranging and managing this type of missions. The 31st Wing, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for emergency medical transport, was therefore immediately affected.

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.

Nine-year-old boy transferred from Catania to Bergamo with an Air Force Falcon 900 aircraft