The... has just concluded Emergency medical transport, carried out with an aircraft C-130 of the Air Force, from the military airport of the 41st Stormo in Sigonella to the civilian airport of Florence-Peretola, in favor of a baby of only 3 months old. Just yesterday, another emergency flight was carried out by the same aircraft on the Bari-Rome route to save a newborn baby.
It C-130, Departing from Pisa around 12:00 and landing at the Sicilian airport around 13:30, the team promptly boarded the little patient, who arrived at the airport in an ambulance and was assisted in flight by a pediatric doctor, a nurse and his mother.
Previously hospitalized at the’Giovanni Paolo II Hospital in Ragusa, The child needed to reach the hospital as soon as possible.’Meyer Pediatric Hospital in Florence In order to receive specific medical care. Arriving in Florence around 16:00, a new ambulance, ready on site waiting for the little boy, loaded the baby and the other passengers, thus allowing them to continue the “race” towards the Tuscan hospital. The C-130 instead returned to Pisa, at the 46th Air Brigade, where the aircraft is stationed and where it immediately resumed its operational readiness in favor of the public.
The medical flight was requested by Prefecture of Ragusa and authorized by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, before being promptly arranged and coordinated by High-Level Situation Room of the Air Force Command – 1a Air Region. This last one, the Air Force Operations Room, has among its tasks that of activating and managing urgent medical transport, ordering the take-off of aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready, 24 hours a day, in various bases, for this type of necessity.
Today's mission adds to that carried out yesterday on the Bari-Rome route., in favor of a baby of only one day old, transported always by a C-130 aircraft.
Missions of this type require the utmost promptness, ensured by meticulous organisation and well-honed procedures. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year by Air Force aircraft for urgent medical transports, both for people in mortal danger and for teams and/or organs, for humanitarian flights or for search and rescue missions. Crews of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, of 15th Air Wing of Cervia and of SAR centresSearch and Rescue) employees, of the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and 14th Practice Wing of Pratica di Mare They are ready 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, to take off at very short notice, with aircraft and personnel capable of operating even in complex weather conditions, for any destination in Italy and abroad.
