An aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force allowed the urgent transport of a one-day-old baby girl, in imminent danger of life, to the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital
The emergency medical transport of a one-day-old baby girl from Cagliari-Elmas airport to Rome-Ciampino, carried out with an Air Force Falcon 50 aircraft, ended a few minutes ago.
The child, in imminent danger of life, needed to be transferred, as quickly as possible, from the Duilio Casula Hospital in Monserrato (CA) to the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.
Emergency medical transport, in favor of the community, is one of the institutional tasks performed by the Air Force. Specifically, the life-saving flight of the child 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 mission.
Once all the necessary procedures were carried out by the military crew, the aircraft took off from Ciampino Airport in the early afternoon of today, landing at Cagliari-Elmas after about an hour's flight. Here the little patient, accompanied by her father, was immediately embarked on the structure made available by the Armed Forces for emergency transport.
After landing at Ciampino airport, an ambulance of the Bambino Gesù, already present on site waiting for the little girl, immediately headed towards the Roman pediatric hospital 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.