A three-month-old baby, in imminent danger of life, traveled aboard an aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force
The emergency medical transport of a three-month-old baby from Cagliari to Ciampino, carried out with an Air Force F17 aircraft, ended at 50pm local time.
The little patient, in imminent danger of his life, needed to be urgently transferred from the “Duilio Casula” hospital in Cagliari to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital in Rome.
Specifically, the little patient traveled monitored and assisted by a medical team and accompanied by both parents.
This type of activity in favor of the community is one of the institutional tasks performed by the Air Force. The life-saving flight was activated, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, by the Air Force Summit Situation Room which immediately involved the 31st Wing, one of the Departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this kind of missions .
Once all the necessary procedures had been carried out by the military crew, the aircraft took off from Ciampino airport, landing in Cagliari Elmas where the child was immediately loaded onto the aircraft for emergency transport. After landing at Ciampino Airport, which took place at 18pm local time, the ambulance headed to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital in Rome for subsequent hospitalization.
The Air Force Flight Departments are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews able to operate, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger to life, but also to 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.