Today a newborn, just one month old, was rushed from Catania to Rome with an Air Force Falcon 900.
The aircraft, one of the assets of the Armed Forces 24 ready hours on 24 for this kind of need, took off immediately on the order of Summit Situation Room of the AM at the time of the Catania airport, where the small patient boarded, accompanied by parents and a medical team for assistance during the flight.
Emergency transport, as happens in these cases, was requested by the competent prefecture, in the Catania case, and it was necessary in consideration of the serious clinical picture of the child, who once arrived in Rome was transferred by ambulance to the Bambino Gesù hospital.
