Three life-saving flights have taken off in the last 48 hours from Sardinia, to transport as many patients of all ages for whom there was no treatment on this side of the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The first Falcon of the Air Force departed on Monday evening from Alghero airport, bound for Genoa. On board was a 6-year-old girl, transferred to Gaslini: she was hospitalized in the Pediatrics of the Aou of Sassari.
Yesterday afternoon the request for intervention by a military aircraft arrived from the Prefecture of Oristano, this time for a 58-year-old woman hospitalized in the San Martino hospital, to be transported to the Molinette in Turin. The plane arrived in Sardinia from Venice at around 4.15 pm and landed in Cagliari at around 5.30 pm. Having embarked the patient, who in the meantime had been transported by ambulance on the 131, accompanied by a doctor and a nurse, the Falcon 50 landed at Caselle airport shortly after 7 pm.
But it's not over. Because in the middle of the night the emergency system was activated by the Prefecture of Cagliari: a two-year-old child had to be saved. The little one, admitted to Brotzu, needed to be transferred to Gaslini.
The Falcon 50, given the need to primarily embark the medical team of the Genoese hospital, who would have assisted the child during the flight, first went to the Ligurian city, to pick up the team, and then reached Cagliari around 3. Once the little patient was also embarked, the aircraft left the Sardinian airport in the early hours of the morning and landed in Genoa after just over half an hour of flight.