The emergency medical transport of a baby just a few hours old from Lamezia Terme Airport to Ciampino Airport (RM), carried out with a Falcon 900 aircraft of the Italian Air Force, ended shortly after midnight today.
The little patient, in imminent danger of his life, needed to be urgently transferred from the “Pugliese Ciaccio” hospital in Catanzaro to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital in Rome. The newborn traveled lying in a thermal cot, accompanied by a specialized medical team.
Emergency medical transport is one of the institutional activities that the Air Force carries out at the service of the community. The flight, defined in this case as “IPV – Imminent Danger of Life”, was activated at the request of the Prefecture of Catanzaro to the Summit Situation Room of the Air Force Command. This immediately affected the 31st Wing of Ciampino, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this type of missions. At the arrival airport, an ambulance was already waiting for the little patient to transfer him directly to the “Bambino Gesù” pediatric hospital for hospitalization.
The Air Force’s flight departments are available to the population 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with vehicles and crews capable of ensuring the transport of patients, organs, medical teams and ambulances, even in complex weather conditions. .
Hundreds of flight hours are carried out every year for this type of intervention by the aircraft of the 31st Wing of Ciampino, the 14th Wing of Pratica di Mare, the 46th Air Brigade of Pisa and the helicopters of the 15th Wing of Cervia.
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