The emergency medical transport carried out by a F of the 31st flock of the Air Force that flew from Olbia airport to Ciampino airport with a 9-year-old child on board in imminent danger of life.
The request for an immediate transfer from the S. Francesco Hospital in Nuoro to the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome was made by the Prefecture of Nuoro to room top situations of the command of the air team, the Air Force operational room which has among its tasks that of organizing and managing this type of transport throughout the national territory.
On board the aircraft F, the young patient was boarded on a stretcher at Olbia airport together with his mother and the medical team. Once they landed at Ciampino airport, an ambulance was waiting for them to complete the transfer to the Roman pediatric hospital.
Through its flight departments, the Italian Air Force makes available vehicles and crews ready to take off at any time and able to operate even in complex weather conditions to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger of life, as happened today, but also of organs and medical teams for transplants. Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of intervention by the aircraft of the 31st Ciampino, 14th Pratica di Mare and 46th Air Brigade of Pisa.
