The emergency medical transport of a twenty-seven year old girl ended just before 12 local time Cagliari to Bolognacarried out with an F50 aircraft of theair Force.
The patient, in imminent danger of her life, needed to be urgently transferred from the “Arnas G. Brotzu” Hospital (CA) to the “Sant’Orsola” Hospital in Bologna (BO)
Specifically, the young woman traveled inside the aircraft, monitored and assisted by a medical team and her mother.
This type of activity in favor of the community is one of the institutional tasks carried out by the Air Force. The life-saving flight was activated, at the request of the Prefecture of Cagliari, by the Air Force’s Summit Situation Room which immediately involved the 31st Wing, one of the departments that carries out the operational readiness service for this type of missions .
Once all the necessary procedures had been carried out by the military crew, the aircraft took off from Ciampino airport, landing in Cagliari Elmas where the girl was immediately boarded on the aircraft for emergency transport. After landing at Bologna Airport, the ambulance headed to the “Sant’Orsola” hospital for subsequent hospitalization.
The Air Force’s flight departments are available to the community 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with vehicles and crews capable of operating, even in complex weather conditions, to ensure the urgent transport not only of people in imminent danger to life, but also to organs, medical teams or ambulances. Every year there are hundreds of flight hours carried out for this type of intervention by the planes 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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