The life-threatening baby was urgently transferred to be hospitalized at the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome
A Falcon 50 from the 31st Wing of the Air Force recently landed at the Roman airport of Ciampino (RM) carrying a one-day-old baby girl who required emergency medical transport from the company. Sassari University Hospital, where she was hospitalized with a serious respiratory disease, at the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome.
The life-saving flight, requested by the Prefecture of Sassari, was immediately 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 arranging and managing this type of missions through the activation of one of the aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready, 24 hours a day, in various bases, for this kind of need.
The crew of the 31st Wing in alert readiness, which took off from Ciampino airport in the morning, once reached the airport of Alghero (SS), home of the Air Force Airport Detachment, boarded the little patient aboard the military aircraft and, after having secured the thermal cradle in which the little girl was protected, took off again towards the Roman airport. Here a Bambino Gesù ambulance was waiting for her and then transferred her to the Roman pediatric hospital for the necessary medical treatment.
Missions of this type require maximum timeliness. The Air Force's flight departments 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.