A 6-year-old girl was urgently transported from Alghero to Genoa with a Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force for immediate hospitalization at the Gaslini hospital
In the early afternoon of today, Monday 27 February, the emergency medical transport from Alghero to Genoa took place, with a Falcon 50 transport aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, in favor of a 6-year-old girl in imminent life threatening.
The emergency flight was requested by the Prefecture of Sassari and coordinated by the Situation Room of the Top Command of the Air Force Air Force.
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After the boarding operations carried out by the flight line personnel of the Alghero airport branch, together with the Falcon 50 flight crew, the aircraft took off towards the Genoa airport; upon her arrival, the little patient, together with her father and the medical team of the Pediatric Department of the Sassari Hospital, was immediately transferred by ambulance and hospitalized at the Gaslini Children's Hospital.
The military aircraft then returned to Ciampino airport where it resumed its operational readiness service.
The Flight Departments of the Air Force are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances.
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, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia.