It concluded in the early afternoon of today the emergency medical transport of a nine-year-old patient, The Garibaldi National and High Specialisation Hospital of Catania to the Eugenio Medea Scientific Institute of Bosisio Parini (LC). The child was transported by Falcon 900 aircraft of the Italian Air Force's 31st Wing, based in Ciampino.
The flight, which boarded at Catania the youngster, accompanied by a medical team and his mother, then departed for the airport of Bergamo, to reach the Lombard hospital quickly.
Emergency air ambulance transport is one of the institutional activities that the Air Force carries out in service of the community. The flight was activated at the request of Prefecture of Catania to the Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operations room of the Air Force, which among its functions also includes arranging and managing these types of missions. The 31st Wing, one of the Departments that provides operational readiness for emergency medical transport.
The Italian Air Force's Flying Departments are available to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with aircraft and crews capable of transporting patients, organs, medical teams, and ambulances, even in complex weather conditions.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of operation, by aircraft from the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and by helicopters from the 15th Wing of Cervia.
