31 ° Emergency transport flock Lamezia Terme - Rome

07/02/15

Yesterday evening a Falcon 50 aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino (Rome) carried out an urgent medical flight to transport a man of 46 years waiting for liver transplant.

The request for transportation was sent from the Prefecture of Catanzaro to the Situation Room of the Air Squadron Command which ordered the immediate execution of the flight. The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo landed at Lamezia Terme (CZ) airport, boarded the patient, and then set off again at 22.30 for Ciampino airport (RM) where he landed at 23: 30. Here the patient was transferred to the Policlinico Umberto I of Rome.

The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo of Ciampino are used for the transport of state and for missions of public utility, such as emergency medical transport of patients, serious traumatized and transplant organs, as well as for interventions in favor of people however in risk situations. This service is performed throughout the national territory, including islands. The health transport activity, given the imminent danger of life of the people transported, imposes a level of promptness twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.

Source: Public Information Office - Rome - serg. Vincenzo Lucidi