Medical transport: life-saving flight from Cagliari to Rome for a newborn baby

It concluded in the early afternoon of today the Emergency medical transport for a 7-day-old baby from Cagliari to Ciampino, carried out with a transport aircraft Falcon 900 del 31st Wing of the Air Force.

The young patient, in imminent danger to life, needed to be urgently transferred to the Paediatric Hospital “Bambino Gesù” in Rome. Due to the type of transport required, a Falcon 900 from the 31st Wing of Ciampino was specifically used, an aircraft suitable for transporting the newborn in imminent danger of death. The little patient, who travelled inside a incubator, was monitored during the flight by a medical team and assisted by both parents for the entire duration of the journey.

It life jacket it has been activated, at the request of Cagliari Prefecture, from Top Situations Room del Air Squad Command of the Italian Air Force, which immediately involved the 31st Wing of Ciampino, one of the Departments that carries out operational readiness service for this type of mission.

All necessary procedures were carried out by the military crew, and the aircraft took off from Cagliari airport around 12:30 this morning. Here, the child was immediately boarded onto the aircraft for emergency transport. After landing at Ciampino Airport, which occurred around 13:00, the ambulance proceeded to the Paediatric Hospital. “Bambino Gesù” in Rome for the next admission.

I Air Force Flying Squadrons We are available to the public 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances.

Hundreds of flight hours are carried out each year for this type of operation by aircraft from the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa, and by helicopters from the 15th Wing of Cervia.