The flight from Reggio Calabria to Rome was necessary to transport a young patient in imminent danger of her life
The emergency medical flight involving a Falcon 900 transport aircraft from the 31st Wing of the Air Force concluded this afternoon. The emergency medical transport, from Reggio Calabria to Ciampino, allowed a young 14-year-old patient, in imminent danger of her life, to reach the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.
The patient was boarded on the 31st Wing aircraft and accompanied by her mother and a doctor for assistance during the flight. The request for transport from the "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli" Metropolitan Hospital in Reggio Calabria to the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, as required by the emergency procedures, was received from the Prefecture of Reggio Calabria.
As happens on similar occasions, the request was managed and coordinated by the Top 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 in favor of the citizens.
Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are ready day and night, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day to ensure, where requested and deemed necessary for reasons of urgency, the medical transport of people in imminent danger of life, transport medical bodies or teams.
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 and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia.
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