Dr Moyano gives an idea of the availability of funding for palliative care services within the Colombian health care system:

“Health insurances do not have adequate palliative care coverage, and when they do, palliative care services are very much underestimated. Although field research has demonstrated that palliative care is cost effective, health administrators’ blindness does not allow them to extend health coverage to include the provision of palliative care, including palliative home care. To give you an example, an inpatient admission to this Foundation may cost around three thousands dollars per day per patient because this is a very specialized hospital at the fourth level. When somebody shows them that the cost of three, four days of inpatient palliative care could be reduced to a tenth by providing home care, their response should be a “yes” immediately But, the truth is different The truth is that all health care is institutionalized. ” ⁹