# Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie, Mauritanie (CNAM)

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## TL;DR

Mauritania's national health insurance fund. It reimburses care at contracted providers and approves treatment abroad through prior evacuation.

## Summary

The fund's website tells insured people to check that a provider, in Mauritania or abroad, is contracted with it, or bills will not be reimbursed, and that care abroad without a prior evacuation is reimbursed only at the national rate. The national cancer plan of 2018 cites its figures: in 2008, 441 of 1,366 patients evacuated abroad (42%) had cancer, at an estimated 1.5 billion ouguiyas; the plan says that at the Centre National d'Oncologie the fund paid for 6% of patients, with 94% covered as indigent care. The coordinates are an approximate Nouakchott city point.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: CNAM Mauritanie; National Health Insurance Fund, Mauritania
- City: Nouakchott, MR
- Type: government
- Website: https://www.cnam.mr/fr/

## Sources

- CNAM Mauritanie: https://www.cnam.mr/fr/
- Plan national de lutte contre le cancer 2018 to 2022, Mauritania (PDF via ICCP): https://www.iccp-portal.org/sites/default/files/plans/MRT_B5_PLAN%20CANCER%20MAURITANIE%20VF%202018%20(1).pdf

## Connected records

- institutions: [Centre National d'Oncologie, Nouakchott (CNO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/cno-nouakchott/), [Ministère de la Santé, Mauritanie](https://onco.cc/institutions/mauritania-ministry-of-health/)

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