How much money did the Italian government allocate to establishing palliative care services throughout the country?
450 billion lira or roughly 238 million dollars. This is just a start-up investment in palliative care. This money was targeted for building and repairing hospitals, but now it is being allocated for building hospices. So this money is not sufficient to establish palliative care services, but in the government’s next budget cycle, the need for more money for the organization of work and so on, will be discussed. Which is more important and pressing now, from your perspective, developing good instruments, staff training or changing how people think? Probably all! You have to remember for Italy, although palliative care actually is not young, officially it is just a baby, born two months ago, and we have a lot of resistance against palliative care. So, first of all, we have to assess palliative care because we have to demonstrate to our government what we are doing. Then, we have to demonstrate to the other specialists that we are doing something that no one else is able to do, in other
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