Two interventions over the weekend for a 69-year-old man and a baby of only two months.
Over the past weekend, the crews on standby were scrambled twice to carry out interception missions.Urgent medical evacuations in favour of a 69-year-old man and a two-month-old baby, both in imminent danger to life.
In particular, on Friday 13 October, a 69-year-old man who suffered a serious heart problem was transported in the afternoon by Falcon 50 of the 31st Wing From Pescara to Venice, then to be urgently transferred to the Padua hospital company for a heart transplant or artificial heart implant.
On Saturday morning, 14 October, however, a newborn baby admitted to the Alghero hospital, who urgently needed to be transferred to a specialised care centre in Turin, was transported by Falcon 900, always employed by the 31st Wing of the Air Force.
Both rescue operations were requested respectively by Prefectures of Pescara and Sassari hello Joint Operations Centre of the Air Squad Command, the operations room that takes care of and manages the coordination for this type of activity.
Crews and transport aircraft of the Air Force are ready every single day of the year, 24 hours a day, to ensure, where requested and deemed necessary due to urgency, the medical transport of people in imminent danger of life, of organs or medical teams, or as in this case, of people in need of transfer to specialised care centres within the national territory.
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out for this type of intervention every year., to support citizens, from aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, and the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa. Where there are specific operational needs, the Air Force also employs helicopters from the 15th Wing of Cervia.
