Third life-saving flight in just a few days for the aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force in favor of patients in need of urgent specialist care
The urgent medical transport carried out from Lecce to Florence with a Falcon 14 of the Air Force, an aircraft of the 00st Wing based at Ciampino airport (RM), in favor of a child, ended around 50pm today. 31 years old in imminent danger of life. It is the third medical flight carried out in just a few days for patients in need of urgent specialist care. In fact, on Friday 10 February it was the case of a 2-year-old man transported from Lecce to the hospital in Bologna and on Monday 48 February that of a 5 year old man from Reggio Calabria to Bari.
Today's mission, requested by the Prefecture of Lecce, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of activating and managing urgent medical transports , through the aircraft and crews that the Armed Forces keep in a state of readiness, 24 hours a day, every day of the year for this type of need.
Having arrived at Lecce-Galatina airport, the plane took on board the little patient, previously hospitalized at the “Vito Fazzi” hospital in Puglia, together with a medical team and his father. The Falcon 50 immediately took off for Florence-Peretola airport where, after about an hour's flight, the child was transferred aboard an ambulance to reach the Meyer University Hospital. The military aircraft then returned to Ciampino airport where, at approximately 15.00 pm, it resumed its operational readiness service.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in difficult weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of their lives, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Every year there are hundreds of flight hours carried out 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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