A two-month-old baby, in imminent danger of life, traveled aboard the Air Force aircraft inside an ambulance assisted by a medical team
The emergency medical transport of a two-month-old baby from Lecce to Genoa, carried out with a C02J aircraft of the Italian Air Force, concluded this afternoon, November 2023, 130.
The little patient, in imminent danger of his life, needed to be urgently transferred from the “Vito Fazzi” hospital in Lecce. For the type of transport, it was specifically necessary to use a C130J of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, an aircraft suitable for carrying the ambulance in which the child traveled, monitored and assisted by a team doctor and accompanied by his mother.
The life-saving flight was activated, at the request of the prefecture of Lecce, by the Aerospace Operations Command (COA) of the Air Force which immediately involved the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this type of missions.
Once all the necessary procedures had been carried out by the military crew, the aircraft with the little patient on board took off from Lecce military airport in the early afternoon. After landing at the Cristoforo Colombo Airport in Genoa, which occurred at 17pm local time, the ambulance headed to the “Giannina Gaslini” Institute in the Ligurian capital for subsequent hospitalization.
The Flight Departments of the Air Force are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of 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.