The flight from Alghero to Rome was necessary to transport a very small patient in imminent danger of life
The life-saving flight involving an Air Force Falcon 20.00 ended just before 900pm today. The emergency medical transport, from Alghero to Ciampino, allowed a very small patient just 1 day old to reach the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome.
The patient was boarded - inside a thermal cradle - on the Air Force aircraft belonging to the 31st Wing and accompanied by his father and a medical team who took care of his assistance during the flight. The request for transport from the University Hospital of Sassari to the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, as required by the emergency procedures, was received from the Prefecture of Sassari. Having landed in Ciampino, the child continued his journey to the Roman hospital aboard an ambulance while the Air Force aircraft resumed its operational readiness service.
As happens on similar occasions, the request was managed and coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its functions also that of arranging and managing this type of missions in favor of the citizens.
Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are ready day and night, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day to ensure, where requested and deemed necessary for reasons of urgency, the medical transport of people in imminent danger of life, transport medical bodies or teams.
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 and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia.
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