The first flight was carried out late yesterday afternoon by a Falcon 50 of Ciampino's 31 ° Wing to transport a seven-day-old baby girl, admitted to the neonatal department of the "San Francesco" Hospital in Nuoro due to a serious heart disease , to be transferred urgently to the "Pasquinucci" heart pediatric hospital in Massa.
The aircraft landed at the "Mario Mameli" airport of Elmas-Cagliari at 18: 03 and departed, at 18: 23, for Pisa airport, where it arrived after about 1 flight time.
The newborn, housed in a special thermal cradle, was assisted during the flight by a doctor and a nurse.
Arrived at the "Galileo Galilei" airport in Pisa, the little patient was immediately transferred to an ambulance in the Massa hospital, about 50 km away.
The second intervention, always assured by the same Falcon 50 crew, at the request of the Lecce Prefecture, was carried out to transport a man of 46 years, waiting to be subjected to a delicate transplant, from Brindisi to Bologna to allow the immediate hospitalization at the Policlinico S. Orsola.
The aircraft, which reached the Brindisi airport detachment at 20.57, after having boarded the patient and a carer, took off at the 21.17 airport in Bologna. Arrived at the airport of Bologna - Borgo Panigale, the patient reached the Bolognese hospital to undergo the delicate intervention.
Shortly after returning to the base, the crew was again alerted by the department's operations room and, at 06: 10 today, the Falcon 50 aircraft started again towards Lamezia Terme, where a patient of 53 years, waiting for kidney transplant, he was transferred to Parma.
This morning, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, the Situation Room of Rome's Chief of the Air Force General Staff (SMA) ordered the activation of a further flight from Cagliari to Ciampino. The available crew, with a Falcon 50, started from Elmas at 11.30 and landed at 12.30. The patient, accompanied by a family member, was assisted during the flight by the medical staff of the Cagliari hospital and was subsequently transported to the Policlinico di Tor Vergata.
The Air Force ensures the emergency medical transport of the sick, seriously traumatized, people in imminent danger of life and organs for transplants through the use of the aircraft of the State fleet, assigned to the 31st Ciampino wing, and of the other assets supplied to the armed force (C-130J, C-27, P-180, HH-3F), coordinated by the Top Situation Room of the Air Force Staff.
Source: AM - General Office for Communication - Public Information Office
