The little patient, in imminent danger of his life, traveled aboard a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing to reach the Gaslini hospital in Genoa
The emergency medical transport of a two-month-old baby from Alghero to Genoa, carried out with an Air Force Falcon 50 aircraft, ended in the early afternoon today.
The child, whose life was in imminent danger, needed to be urgently transferred from the University Hospital of Sassari and traveled in a thermal cot together with the medical team.
Emergency medical transport is one of the institutional activities that the Air Force carries out at the service of the community. The flight, defined in this case as “IPV – Imminent Danger of Life”, was activated at the request of the Prefecture of Sassari to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command. This immediately affected the 31st Wing, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this type of mission. Upon landing in Genoa, which took place after 13pm local time, an ambulance was already waiting for the little patient to transfer him directly to the Gaslini Hospital for subsequent hospitalization.
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.
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