The missions in favor of three children in imminent life-threatening danger and a patient awaiting a transplant The first mission was ordered by the Situation Room of the Air Force General Staff, alerted by the Prefecture of Lecce, to transport a newborn baby of only one day old in a thermal incubator suffering from a serious respiratory syndrome to Ciampino Airport. Destination hospital Bambino Gesù in Rome where the little girl can receive the care she needs.
Subsequently, the same aircraft left the Ciampino base again, carrying a 9-year-old girl with a serious illness that requires constant mechanical ventilation.
The little girl, assisted during every phase of the flight by medical staff, was transported to Lamezia Terme Airport for further hospitalization at the Vibo Valentia Hospital.
Following a new request from the Vertice Operations Room, the Falcon 900 EASy has once again departed for Catania Fontanarossa, where a one-month-old baby in a thermal incubator with severe heart disease and other internal complications was boarded and transported to Ciampino Airport. The little boy was subsequently transferred to the Bambino Gesù Hospital in Rome, where he will receive the delicate care he needs. On the same day, a patient from Taranto was urgently transferred from Brindisi to Pisa in another 31st Stormo aircraft to allow immediate admission to the Pisa Civil Hospital for urgent medical care.
Following the communication from a hospital in Taranto that a compatible organ was available at the Tuscan hospital for the patient on the transplant waiting list, the Situation Room of the Air Force General Staff in Rome, at the request of the Prefectural Authority of Taranto, immediately ordered the activation of the flight, which was carried out by a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31st Squadron at Ciampino (Rome) on a 24-hour standby basis for emergency medical flights.
The aircraft, which took off from the Ciampino “Giovan Battista Pastine” airport, reached the Brindisi airport in the early hours of the night and, after boarding the patient and his wife who accompanied him, took off towards the Tuscan airport. The man, who arrived at the Pisa airport, was transferred to the local hospital to undergo the delicate operation.
