A three-year-old girl in imminent danger of life was rushed yesterday evening from Olbia to Rome with an Air Force Falcon 50. The aircraft, one of the assets of the Armed Force ready 24 hours a day for this kind of need, took off immediately on the orders of the Summit Situation Room of the AM at a time in Olbia, where he boarded the stretcher with the small patient, accompanied by the parents and a medical team for assistance during the flight. Urgent transport, as happens in these cases, was requested by the competent prefecture, in the Nuoro circumstance, and was necessary in view of the serious clinical picture of the child, who once arrived in Rome was transferred to the ambulance to Bambino Gesù hospital.
At about 20 pm, just over two hours after the request for intervention, the crew was back in Ciampino to resume the 24-hour readiness shift.
Missions of this type require maximum timeliness and the Air Force, through its flight departments, provides vehicles and crews ready to take off 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, without interruption and capable of operate in any weather condition. There are hundreds of interventions of this type every year by the Air Force aircraft, vehicles that are always ready for take-off and that have the ability to take on specific medical and health equipment and equipment, such as thermal cradles, or even an ambulance with the patient on board, as in the case of the aircraft of the 46 ^ Pisa air brigade.
