In support of the IPV (Imminent Danger of Life), a Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing took off from Ciampino
The emergency medical transport of a five-year-old patient from the University Hospital of Sassari to the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa ended yesterday evening. The little girl, whose life was in imminent danger, was transported with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the 31st Wing of the Air Force, based in Ciampino.
The flight, which boarded the little girl in Alghero accompanied by the medical team and her parents, then left for Genoa airport, to quickly reach the Gaslini Institute.
Emergency medical transport is one of the institutional activities that the Air Force carries out at the service of the community. The flight, defined as "IPV - Imminent Danger of Life", was activated at the request of the Prefecture of Sassari at the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its functions also that of arranging and manage this type of missions. The 31st Wing, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for emergency medical transport, was therefore immediately involved.
The Air Force's flight departments are available to the population 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of ensuring the transport of patients, organs, medical teams and ambulances, even in complex weather conditions.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of intervention, by the planes 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.
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