A C-130 aircraft of the 46 ^ Air Brigade of Pisa flew to the military airport of Pratica di Mare (Rome), and took a special "ATI" (Aircraft Transport Isolator) airborne stretcher and the medical personnel of the Italian Air Force, specialized in the management and transport of highly infectious patients.
The aircraft departed immediately for the airport detachment of Alghero (SS), where the patient was embarked.
Once the boarding operations were completed, the C130 took off for Orio al Serio airport. The patient then continued to the Tisiologia Hospital in Sondalo (SO) for the final destination.
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The ability to carry out transport of highly infectious patients through the use of special isolated stretchers is a peculiarity of the Italian Air Force which, last November brought back to Italy, from Sierra Leone, the doctor of Emergency suffering from Ebola.
The Air Force has developed the capacity for aero-medical evacuation in bio-containment since the 2005, working closely with both the Ministry of Health and the Civil Protection Department; this capacity is based on the use of special "ATI" (Aircraft Transport Isolator) and the smaller "STI" terrestrial systems (Stretcher Transit Isolator), indispensable when transferring the patient from the aircraft to the ambulance. Long-distance "bio-containment" air transport is currently carried out on C-130 J "Hercules", C-27 J "Spartan" and KC-767 aircraft.
Source: AM, Public Information Office
