Today an Air Force aircraft at the request made by the Prefecture of Lecce operated a medical flight from the Apulian capital to the Ancona-Falconara airport, in favor of a patient on the waiting list for an organ transplant.
The Situation Room of the Air Squad Command (Rome) - which, activated in H24, coordinates all air transport activities for state, health and humanitarian needs - in fact responded promptly to the request, to guarantee the transport of a Salento patient, arranging the use of a crew and an aircraft of the 31st Wing "Carmelo Raiti" of Ciampino (Rome), ready 24 hours a day for emergency medical flights.
In the early hours of the day, a Falcon 50 took off reaching the Brindisi port where the patient and a family member who accompanied him boarded. The plane then left for the Marche airport where an ambulance awaited him ready to transport him to the Umberto I Hospital in Ancona, to undergo a kidney transplant.
Brindisi airport is often used for these types of flights as it is strategically close to the major hospitals of southern Salento.
The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino are used for state transport and for public utility missions, such as emergency medical transport of the sick, severely traumatized and transplant organs, as well as for interventions in favor of people in any case in risk situations. This last activity, given the imminent danger of life of the transported people, imposes a level of readiness, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
