Hospice activist Gustavo de Simone, consultant in palliative care and senior lecturer at the University of “del Salvador”, says:
‘From three or four teams at the beginning of 90s, we have more than 80 teams now throughout the country; 11 of them working in paediatric palliative care.’2
Most of these services are hospital based although a small number of the more developed services also provide home care (table 1). Marta Junin, sister in palliative care, gives an account of current palliative care developments in Buenos Aires public hospitals:
‘…amongst our 33 hospitals, we have got 9 hospitals that have “developing” or “mature” teams… that is, teams that have been working in palliative care for more or less ten years… “Developing” teams are mature teams that have been re-structured…and that they are in continuous development’3
As yet, there are no free-standing hospices. Only a few of these services are multiprofessional beyond a palliative care physician and nurse.
Table 1: Palliative Care services currently available in Argentina
City |
Palliative care service |
Hospital palliative care team |
Home palliative care programme |
Palliative care unit |
Buenos Aires |
‘Bonorino Udaondo’ Hospital
(public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
‘Clinicas’ University Hospital
(public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
‘Garrahan’ Hospital
(paediatric, public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
‘Gutierrez’ Hospital
(paediatric, public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
‘Hostal de Malta’ home palliative care programme and day care centre
(non-governmental, non-profit organization) |
no |
yes |
no |
‘ Posadas’ Hospital
(paediatric, public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
‘Roffo’ University Cancer Institute
(public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
‘Tornu’ Hospital
(public service) |
no |
no |
yes |
‘Valdomero Sommer’ Hospital
(it also offers ‘distance care’)
(public service) |
no |
no |
yes |
Cordoba |
‘San Roque’ Hospital (public service) |
yes |
no |
no |
Neuquen |
‘General’ Hospital
(public service) |
yes |
yes |
no |
Mar del Plata |
Community Private Hospital
(private service) |
yes |
yes |
no |
Rosario |
Private palliative care centre
(private service) |
no |
yes |
no |
San Nicolas |
Pain and palliative care centre
(non-governmental, organization) |
no |
yes |
no |
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