Beat Richner

Swiss pediatrician, cellist, and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia (1947-2018) Date Of Birth : 1947-03-13T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 2018-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

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