The life-saving flight, requested by the Prefecture of Cagliari, was carried out with a Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing
A baby just one day old, hospitalized at the Policlinico Monserrato hospital in Cagliari and in need of specialist care for a serious heart problem, was urgently transported to Milan late yesterday morning with an Air Force Falcon 900 , for subsequent hospitalization at the polyclinic hospital of San Donato Milanese.
For the ambulance flight, requested by the Prefecture of Cagliari, 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 child was hospitalized and the Top 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 in a very short time he took off from Ciampino airport for Cagliari Elmas to board the little one, who traveled with his father 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.
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