It concluded in the early afternoon of today the Emergency medical transport of a patient of only six years old, from the Calabrian airport of Lamezia Terme at the airport of Rome-Ciampino, carried out with a military transport aircraft Falcon 900 of the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force.
It medical flight It allowed the small patient to be transferred quickly from’Pugliese-Ciaccio Hospital Company of Catanzaro, where he was hospitalized, at the’Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital of Rome.
It Emergency medical transport It is one of the institutional activities carried out by the Air Force in the service of the community. The flight was activated at the request of Prefecture of Catanzaro hello Situation Room Summit del Air Squad Command, The Air Force operational room, which among its other functions also includes the responsibility of planning and managing this type of mission.
He was therefore immediately interested in 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.
