{"entity":{"id":"cnam-mauritania","kind":"institution","name":"Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie, Mauritanie (CNAM)","aka":["CNAM Mauritanie","National Health Insurance Fund, Mauritania"],"tldr":"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.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"CNAM Mauritanie","url":"https://www.cnam.mr/fr/"},{"label":"Plan national de lutte contre le cancer 2018 to 2022, Mauritania (PDF via ICCP)","url":"https://www.iccp-portal.org/sites/default/files/plans/MRT_B5_PLAN%20CANCER%20MAURITANIE%20VF%202018%20(1).pdf"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["mauritania-ministry-of-health","cno-nouakchott"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Nouakchott","country":"MR","lat":18.079,"lng":-15.978,"institutionType":"government","website":"https://www.cnam.mr/fr/","programs":["Compulsory health insurance","Medical evacuation abroad"]},"route":"/institutions/cnam-mauritania/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"cno-nouakchott","kind":"institution","name":"Centre National d'Oncologie, Nouakchott (CNO)","route":"/institutions/cno-nouakchott/"},{"id":"mauritania-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministère de la Santé, Mauritanie","route":"/institutions/mauritania-ministry-of-health/"}]}}