The Situation Room, having authorized the mission, then ordered its immediate execution at the 31 ° Flocking Room and at 10 a Falcon 50 of the department took off for the Sicilian capital where the patient boarded.
The man, suffering from very serious heart failure refractory to medical therapies, was then transported to the Venice Tessera airport, where an ambulance from the Padua hospital was waiting for him for subsequent admission to the cardiac surgery department. In the following hours, the patient underwent heart transplant surgery.
The aircraft of the 31 ° flock of military aeronautics carry out a dual institutional task: state transport and emergency medical transport including humanitarian transport and public calamity interventions. For the health activity in favor of needy compatriots in Italy and abroad the aircraft and crews of the 31 flock have an operational readiness of only two hours 365 days a year, 24 hours on 24.
Source: 31 ° flock (Ciampino) - captain Ida Casetti
