# Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia

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## TL;DR

Namibia's health ministry. Its Windhoek Central Hospital houses the public cancer centre, and it works with the Cancer Association of Namibia, which runs the national cancer registry.

## Summary

The Ministry of Health and Social Services runs Namibia's state hospitals. The African Cancer Registry Network's undated page on the Namibian registry describes the ministry's oncology clinic taking part in founding the registry in 1995, the Dr A.B. May Cancer Care Centre within the state Central Hospital in Windhoek, a cancer centre at Oshakati Intermediate Hospital, and the state National Institute of Pathology; it says the registry and the Cancer Association were asking the ministry to make cancer a reportable disease. The ministry's website (mhss.gov.na) refused a plain request in November 2026. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Windhoek.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: MoHSS; Ministry of Health, Namibia
- City: Windhoek, NA
- Type: government

## Sources

- African Cancer Registry Network: Namibian National Cancer Registry: https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/125-nambiancr

## Connected records

- institutions: [Cancer Association of Namibia](https://onco.cc/institutions/cancer-association-of-namibia/), [Dr A.B. May Cancer Care Centre, Windhoek Central Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/windhoek-central-hospital-oncology/), [Namibia Oncology Centre (NOC)](https://onco.cc/institutions/namibia-oncology-centre/), [Namibian National Cancer Registry](https://onco.cc/institutions/namibia-national-cancer-registry/)

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