A 2-day-old newborn, in imminent danger of life, traveled aboard an aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force
The emergency medical transport of a 2-day-old baby from Cagliari to Milan Linate, carried out with an Air Force F900 EASY aircraft, ended in the middle of the night.
The child, in imminent danger of life, needed to be transferred urgently from the Duilio Casula Hospital in Monserrato (CA) to the Institute for Scientific Hospitalization and Care (IRCCS) Policlinico San Donato Milanese (MI).
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, from 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 were carried out by the military crew, the aircraft took off from Ciampino Airport and landed in Cagliari Elmas, shortly after midnight, where the little patient was immediately boarded on the aircraft for emergency transport.
After landing at Milan Linate airport, which took place at 01:45 local time, the ambulance, carrying the newborn, the parents and the medical team, headed to the San Donato 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.