An entire plane "transformed" into a maternity ward.
It happened on the Dubai-Malpensa route last Saturday : a young 24-year-old of Asian nationality went into labor after take-off of the Emirates Airbus A380-800 headed to the Milan airport.
Fortunately there was a surgeon on board, who delivered the baby with the help of the stewardesses during the flight over Iranian airspace.
The newborn, three kilos, gave his first cry while the pilot was flying at about 10 thousand meters above sea level towards Malpensa, where he landed with an extra passenger. The Neonatology team from the Del Ponte hospital in Varese was already ready to wait for mother and child, arriving directly on the track with the nursery-intensive care ambulance ready to intervene 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
The ambulance is equipped with a special cradle which allowed the medical staff to safely transport the little one to the Varese pediatric hospital. The baby was admitted to neonatal sub-intensive care as a precaution and underwent all the necessary checks. At the end of which the prognosis was more than positive: mother and son are both doing very well and will be able to be discharged in the next few days.
(Unioneonline/D)