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Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia

Beat Richner (13 March 1947 – 9 September 2018) was a Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia.

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Beat Richner was a Swiss pediatrician, cellist and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia.

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Zurich paediatrician Dr. Beat Richner left his home country in March to rebuild the children's hospital in Phnom Penh, which had been destroyed by the war.

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He created the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Zürich in 1992 and became its head. Along with another expatriate, he oversaw and ran the predominantly Cambodian-staffed hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Richner was known by patients, audiences, and donors as "Beatocello".^[1]

Career

Richner was born on 13 March 1947 in Zürich.

After receiving his medical degree in 1973, Richner specialized in pediatric care at the Zürich Children's Hospital. Following this, working for the Swiss Red Cross, he was sent to Cambodia where he worked at the Kantha Bopha Children's Hospital in Phnom Penh in 1974 and 1975.

The hospital is named in memory of HRH Samdach Preah Ang Mechas Norodom Kantha Bopha (1948–1952), who was the daughter of King Norodom Si