The girl, in imminent danger of her life, traveled aboard a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing to reach the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome
The emergency medical transport of a young 15-year-old woman from Catanzaro to Ciampino, carried out with an Air Force Falcon 50 aircraft, concluded late yesterday afternoon.
The patient, in imminent danger of her life, needed to be urgently transferred from Catanzaro Hospital to the Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome. The medical team and a family member traveled with her.
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 Catanzaro to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command (COA) of the Air Force. This immediately affected the 31st Wing, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this type of mission. Upon landing at Ciampino, an ambulance was already waiting for the girl to transfer her directly to the Gemelli Polyclinic 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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