Press release no. 16/2016 SARDINIA: THE ITALIAN AIR FORCE RESCUES TWO SARDINIAN CHILDREN An urgent medical transport is underway, from Alghero to Ciampino, for a 4-year-old girl in imminent danger of death; earlier today, a newborn baby just one day old was transported from Cagliari to Ciampino.
A Falcon 50 from the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force took off just minutes ago from Alghero Airport Detachment bound for Rome Ciampino. On board is a 4-year-old girl in imminent danger of death, who, hospitalised at the Sassari University Hospital Company, needed to be urgently transferred to the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome.
This morning, a Falcon 900 aircraft, also belonging to the 31st Wing of the Air Force, carried out the urgent medical transport of a one-day-old newborn who, due to a serious illness, needed to be taken to the Roman paediatric hospital inside a thermal incubator. The aircraft, which took off from Cagliari airport, landed at Rome Ciampino shortly before midday.
Support requests from the Prefectures of Sassari and Cagliari were received by the Summit Situation Room of the Air Squadron Command, the operational room of the Italian Air Force which, among its responsibilities, has the task of organising and managing – in coordination with Prefectures, Hospitals and the Prime Minister's Office – these types of transports throughout the national territory, including the islands.
Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are ready day and night to ensure, where required and deemed necessary for reasons of urgency, the medical transport of people in imminent danger of life.
With today's two flights, the number of missions successfully completed by the Air Force's Flight Departments for urgent air ambulance transport at the request of the Sardinian Prefectures since the beginning of the year has risen to 32.
Aircraft from the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, are assets that are always at the forefront in emergencies for the benefit of the community.
A Falcon 50 from the 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force took off just minutes ago from Alghero Airport Detachment bound for Rome Ciampino. On board is a 4-year-old girl in imminent danger of death, who, hospitalised at the Sassari University Hospital Company, needed to be urgently transferred to the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome.
This morning, a Falcon 900 aircraft, also belonging to the 31st Wing of the Air Force, carried out the urgent medical transport of a one-day-old newborn who, due to a serious illness, needed to be taken to the Roman paediatric hospital inside a thermal incubator. The aircraft, which took off from Cagliari airport, landed at Rome Ciampino shortly before midday.
Support requests from the Prefectures of Sassari and Cagliari were received by the Summit Situation Room of the Air Squadron Command, the operational room of the Italian Air Force which, among its responsibilities, has the task of organising and managing – in coordination with Prefectures, Hospitals and the Prime Minister's Office – these types of transports throughout the national territory, including the islands.
Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are ready day and night to ensure, where required and deemed necessary for reasons of urgency, the medical transport of people in imminent danger of life.
With today's two flights, the number of missions successfully completed by the Air Force's Flight Departments for urgent air ambulance transport at the request of the Sardinian Prefectures since the beginning of the year has risen to 32.
Aircraft from the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, are assets that are always at the forefront in emergencies for the benefit of the community.