The lifesaving flight from Catania to Rome with a Falcon 900 of the 31 ° Stormo ended late yesterday
The emergency medical transport carried out in favor of a very small patient of only six days in imminent danger of life, from Catania to Rome Ciampino airport with an Air Force Falcon 14 aircraft ended in the late evening of yesterday October 900th. Military
The doctors of the Opedaliero Garibaldi-Nesina Presidium of Catania, finding the complex clinical picture of the little patient, requested emergency transport to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital in Rome.
The aircraft arrived at the Catania airport where together the child - who traveled in a thermal cradle - was boarded by the parents and a medical team from the Catania hospital. The aircraft then took off towards Ciampino airport where upon landing, shortly after 21:00, an ambulance ensured the transport to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital in Rome.
The life-saving flight, requested by the Prefecture of Catania, was immediately arranged and coordinated by the Summit Situation Room of the Air Squad Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks also that of activating and managing transport urgent health care, through the aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready, 24 hours a day, for this kind of need.
Through its Flight Departments, the Air Force provides vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of intervention by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa.