The request for transport, as required by the emergency procedures, was received by the prefecture of Sassari at room top situations of the command of the air team, the operations room of the Air Force which has among its tasks that of arranging and managing this type of missions through the activation of one of the aircraft that the armed force keeps ready 24 hours a day, in various bases , for this kind of need.
The child, protected in a thermal cradle and followed by the medical team, was boarded with his mother on board the military aircraft, to take off shortly after 8.30 am from Alghero airport.
After about an hour of flight, the military plane reached the Genoa airport where the little patient, always protected in the thermal cradle and in compliance with the precautionary measures related to the Covid-19 health emergency, was transferred by ambulance to the subsequent hospitalization at the “Istituto Giannina Gaslini” Pediatric Hospital in the capital of the Ligurian region.
Missions of this type require maximum timeliness. The Air Force Flight Departments are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger to life, but also to organs, medical teams or ambulances.
