Organ transplant carried out in record time this morning in Cagliari . The result thanks to the first Areus flight outside the region , specifically for the organ transplant, coordinated by the 118 center in Cagliari .

The Brotzu surgeons were able to reach the Maggiore hospital in Bologna in good time to collect an organ and return to Elmas in the morning to perform the transplant on a Sardinian patient in Cagliari.

Thus the logistical coordination service of transport for organ transplantation by the Regional Emergency and Urgency Company opens, a task entrusted by the Sardinia Region starting from 1 September .

The activation of private planes in agreement with Areus occurs in all cases in which a patient resident in Sardinia must promptly reach a hospital outside the region for a transplant operation or in those in which the surgical team of a regional hospital must collect organs in other Italian regions to subsequently perform transplants in patients hospitalized in Sardinia.

The coordination of fixed wing flights used for transplantation activities outside the region was entrusted to the 118 Operations Center in Cagliari .

(Unioneonline/vl)

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