It all started quite harmlessly, with some dandruff in the hair and an itch. Nothing to worry about, thought Vorn Sopheara's parents. But...

Families provide their own food for their hospitalised children. There is no central hospital kitchen. Many locals therefore offer the...

120 new places for mothers and their newborn babies, including a neonatal ward: the expansion of the maternity ward in our hospital in...

A two-month placement is offered at the Kantha Bopha Hospitals in Siem Reap with the following rotations (1 month each): - Paediatrics...

Babies who are born prematurely or have health complications after birth receive the support they need in the neonatology unit. Here they...

Zurich filmmaker Angela Spörri accompanied the Cambodian Vichea Thun Chay and his family - the result is a touching documentary film. You...

Tuberculosis is caused by bacteria. The pathogens mainly affect the lungs but can also affect other organs and cause serious disease....

Diabetes is an incurable autoimmune disease. In our children's hospitals in Cambodia, we support 458 boys and girls with diabetes,...

Surgeon in Phnom Penh

- 899,692 children treated as outpatients /  +36% compared to 2022 - 184,055 children admitted as inpatients / +53% - 16,160 cases of...

An eventful year lies behind us: in 2023, we provided medical treatment and care to over 2,500 sick or injured children in Cambodia every...

Kantha Bopha - fragrant flower. This was the name of King Sihanouk's much-loved daughter, who died of leukaemia in 1952 at the age of...

One sip from the wrong bottle can endanger a child's life from one second to the next. In Cambodia, lye and cleaning agents are usually...

When Dr. Beat Richner began his work in Cambodia in the early 1990s, the child mortality rate was around 12 percent. The most common...

Little Chheng Y has a fever and is breathing heavily when her mother brings her to the hospital in Siem Reap. A rash is spreading across...

They are mystical and majestic. Their history is fascinating and reminiscent of a bygone era. The monumental buildings of Angkor comprise...

It looks painful – and the doctors assure that Leang Seangly was really, really brave. The moments of shock are still written all over...

How much can a person move and achieve if he persistently believes in his idea and goes his own way? Beat Richner, MD, showed us this...

Paediatrician in Phnom Penh

Graceful acrobatics, spectacular jumps, crazy water shows - and the latest information from our five children's hospitals in Cambodia: On...