# Ministère de la Santé, Mauritanie

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## TL;DR

Mauritania's health ministry. Its national cancer plan for 2018 to 2022 recorded 1,115 new cancer cases in 2016 and found that the cancer registry was not yet formally established.

## Summary

The ministry's Plan national de lutte contre le cancer 2018 to 2022, issued by its directorate for disease control, records 1,115 new cases registered in 2016 and describes the Centre National d'Oncologie, created in 2009, as the national reference centre. It says the ministry set up a registry management team trained with support from the African Cancer Registry Network, IARC, the IAEA and WHO, but that the registry was not institutionalised, had no dedicated staff, premises or budget, and worked as a coordination committee. Opioids were available only in Nouakchott. The ministry's website reset the connection when read. The coordinates are an approximate Nouakchott city point.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Ministry of Health, Mauritania
- City: Nouakchott, MR
- Type: government

## Sources

- 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: [Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie, Mauritanie (CNAM)](https://onco.cc/institutions/cnam-mauritania/), [Centre National d'Oncologie, Nouakchott (CNO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/cno-nouakchott/)

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