Palliative care in Córdoba: experience of the Marie Curie Foundation and the Oncology Service of Sanatorio del Salvador

Córdoba is a city with 1,300,000 inhabitants located in the center of Argentina. Although Palliative Medicine is a discipline that has been present for a little over 10 years, it has not developed in step with demand, owing to lack of political will and insufficient support from the Health Administration. However, the existing units have expanded, thanks to the efforts of their staff members, who help hundreds of terminally ill patients and their families, provide training at undergraduate and postgraduate university levels, and make information available to the general public through different activities in the community.