The transport from Alghero to Genoa was carried out with a C130J of the 46th Air Brigade from Pisa, with the help of a special thermal stretcher. In the early afternoon, a 12-day-old Nigerian baby in serious health condition was transported with utmost urgency from Alghero to Genoa, to receive specialist medical care at the Gaslini Hospital.
The transport was carried out by a C130J of the 46th Air Brigade, which took off from the airport of Alghero around 16:00 and landed in Genoa an hour later. Here, the little boy was quickly transported in an ambulance, protected by a thermal cradle, to the hospital facility.
The request for transport came from the Prefecture of Sassari to the Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the operational room of the Air Force that has among its tasks the authorization and management – in coordination with Prefectures, Hospitals and the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – of this type of transport throughout the national territory, including the islands.
For this type of mission, which requires extremely rapid reaction times, the Air Force maintains assets and crews in a state of operational readiness, available to citizens every single day of the year, 24 hours a day, capable of operating in complex meteorological conditions, ensuring the urgent transport not only of people in imminent life-threatening danger and medical teams, but also of organs and ambulances.
