A Nigerian girl in the eighth month of pregnancy in imminent danger of life was urgently transported yesterday evening from Cagliari to Rome with an Air Force Falcon 50.
The young woman, an asylum seeker in our country, was hospitalized at the University Hospital of Cagliari with a rather serious clinical picture, whose complications risked endangering the life of the patient and of the baby on her lap. At the request of the prefecture of Cagliari, the request to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force for emergency medical transport and the subsequent transfer to the Fatebenefratelli Isola Tiberina hospital in Rome, authorized in a very short time by the presidency of the Council of Ministers.
The aircraft of the 31 ° Stormo, promptly at Ciampino airport for this kind of needs, took off for Cagliari Elmas, where little time 21 embarked the woman and a medical team for assistance during the flight . On board, given the particular clinical conditions of the patient, a thermal cradle was also loaded in case of premature birth. The mission ended around the 22,30 with the arrival at Ciampino, where the crew resumed the H24 shift of readiness for employment.
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 able to operate in any weather condition. The peculiar ability of the Air Force vehicles to take on specific medical and health equipment and equipment, such as thermal cradles, as happened in this case, or even ambulances, as in the case of the 46 air brigade of Pisa, it also allows patients and doctors to promptly reach the health facilities most suited to their needs by traveling in complete safety.
