A Cessna plane from the Ministry of Security of the province of Buenos Aires made a health flight to save the life of a premature baby weighing one kilogram born in the city of Pehuajó, who was urgently transferred to a hospital with special neonatal care, The Provincial Directorate of Official Air Navigation and Airport Planning, which depends on that Buenos Aires portfolio, reported this Monday.
The case, broadcast this Monday, occurred on December 31, when at 5:00 p.m. a call was received that was answered by Guillermo Muñoz, a radio operator on duty, requesting an emergency air transfer for a premature baby, only 27 weeks pregnant and weighing one kilo, who needed to be transferred from Pehuajó to the Junín hospital.
In less than 15 minutes, the aeronautical mechanics had the Cessna Caravan 208 plane configured and ready, ready to depart, parked on the platform of the Base of Operationsadded the official statement.
The pilots Daniel Sanzone and Daniel Capa carried out all the procedures to start the flight, while Karina Saldívar and Miguel Molina, from the medical department, established the necessary equipment for the transfer of the baby.
The medical plane headed for Pehuajó and, after boarding the baby, transferred it to the Glider Club of Laguna de Gómez, located just 10 kilometers from the Hospital in the city of Junín.
✅ The Aeroevacuation carried out by a Sanitary Plane of our Ministry of Health, was carried out through an operation and coordinated work from our Sanitary Region with @saludbap and professionals who collaborated to make the health flight successful ??❤️ pic.twitter.com/eZBHLqATHK
— SANITARY REGION II (@RegSanitariaII) January 2, 2023
The baby was lowered from the plane in the incubator and once sheltered in the ambulance, he left for the Junín Hospital, along with the entire medical team in charge of the transfer.
“This baby was born at 2:00 p.m. and we were activated at 5:00 p.m. Being a premature baby of 27 weeks, weighing one kilogram, the important thing is that the transfer be done immediately because, in the place where he was born, there was no necessary medical complexity for that child under the circumstances of his birth”explained Karina Saldívar.
He graphed that “It is the honeymoon of these babies, because if everything is done quickly there is no risk, it was time to carry out the transfer because after 48 hours is when in such premature babies the condition can become more complex, so we were in the golden hour for everything to go well”.
