The neonate, whose life was in danger, was urgently transferred for admission to the Bambino Gesù Paediatric Hospital in Rome.
has just landed at Rome's Ciampino Airport (RM) a Falcon 50 del 31st Wing of the Italian Air Force with a one-day-old baby on board for whom urgent medical transport was necessary from the’North-West Sardinia University Hospital, where she was admitted with a serious respiratory illness, at the’Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital of Rome.
The life-saving flight, requested by Sassari Prefecture, was immediately coordinated by Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command, the Air Force operations room, which has among its duties the task of arranging and managing these types of missions by activating one of the aircraft that the Armed Force keeps ready, 24 hours a day, in various bases, for this kind of requirement.
The crew of the 31st Wing on high alert, taking off from Ciampino airport in the morning, once reaching the airport of Alghero (SS), headquarters of the Air Force Airport Detachment, embarked the young patient aboard the military aircraft and, after securing the incubator in which the baby was protected, took off again towards the Roman airport. Here, an ambulance from the ARES 118 neonatal transport service was waiting for her to then transfer her to the Roman paediatric hospital for the necessary medical treatment.
Missions of this kind require the utmost speed. The Italian Air Force's Flying Departments are available to the community. 24 hours a day, 365 days the year with the means and crews capable of operating, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of death, but also of organs, medical teams or ambulances.
