Alghero: flying to save a child

02/04/15

Today an eighteen-month-old child, admitted to the pediatric ward of the Sassari civil hospital, was transferred urgently from the Alghero Air Force (SS) Airport Detachment to the Genoa airport with a 50 Falcon 31 ° Ciampino Wing.

The request for air transport has become necessary to ensure immediate urgent medical care for the little patient to be carried out at the Cardiology Department of the Pediatric Institute "G. Gaslini "of Genoa, was sent by the health management of the Turritano hospital through the Prefecture of Sassari to the Situation Hall of the Air Force, which ordered the immediate take-off of the aircraft to the military airport of Alghero.

The aircraft arrived at 11.20, the crew immediately embarked the little child, the mother and the medical team who assisted him and left for Liguria, where an ambulance was waiting for the little patient for the subsequent hospitalization at the Genoese hospital.

Source: Airport Detachment - Alghero (SS) - t.col. Francesco Demontis