Emergency medical transport: 5-year-old girl from Cagliari to Genoa

(To air Force)
16/08/16

It ended with the landing of a Falcon 900 Easy of the 31 ° Wing of the Italian Air Force at Genoa airport, the emergency medical transport of a Sardinian girl of only five years in imminent danger of life.

The request for intervention of an emergency medical flight was received this morning at Summit Situation Room of the Air Team Command from the prefecture of Cagliari to be able to quickly transport the child from the Brotzu Hospital of Cagliari to the Gaslini pediatric hospital in Genoa for the necessary specialist care.

In the late morning of today the child was boarded on the military aircraft that was transferred from the Cagliari airport to the Genoa airport. The family members of the child and a medical team assisted her during the trip.

Since the beginning of the year, more than 50 are the Sardinian patients transported urgently with aircraft and crews of the Italian Air Force, about which the 2 / 3 are children between the ages of 0 and 12 years.