Discussion between Dr. Oliver Kretschmar & Dr. Beat Richner in 2011, about the interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery work at the Kantha Bopha Hospital in Siem Reap. Extract from the film "Beatocello's umbrella" by Georges Gachot from 2011.

The President Dr. iur. René Schwarzenbach and some members of the Swiss Kantha Bopha foundations board, send this video message from the University children’s hospital in Zurich, to the Staff of the Kantha Bopha Hospitals. Due to the Covid-restrictions, unfortunately, all planned visit to Cambodia this year had to be cancelled.

Today, on the 73th birthday of the late Dr. Beat Richner, we are publishing, in exclusivity, a short film about the Interventional cardiology and cardiac surgery work at the Kantha Bopha Hospital in Siem Reap. Dr. Beat Richner was particularly very proud to have opened this section in 2012. Filmmaker Georges Gachot kept this moment on his camera.

Prof. Dr. med. Yay Chantana is head physician of the hospital Jayavarman VII in Siem Reap of the Kantha Bopha foundation. Prof. Chantana studied medicine at the university in Phnom Penh and participated already as a student in 1992 at the reconstruction of Kantha Bopha 1, the first hospital of Dr. Beat Richner in Cambodia. He is working as a doctor since 1993 at the Kantha Bopha Hospital, first in Phnom Penh and moved to Siem Reap in 1999 when Dr. Beat Richner did open his third hospital near the temple of Angkor Wat. Prof. Chantana is in charge of staff of 1’248 employees (937 medical and 309 non medical). The Jayavarman VII hospital has 31 sections, 833 beds for children inpatients, a maternity with 153 beds, a surgery and a heart operation center.

A short film by Georges Gachot Filmmaker Georges Gachot accompany Dr. Beat Richner on his last journey from Zurich to his Stupa in Siem Reap, Cambodia. An impressive film which shows the farewell of the ebullient and celebrated paediatrician in the country where he has built in 25 years, 5 children’s hospital and treated 12 million children.

Zurich November 26, 2018 A short film by Georges Gachot Whole of Switzerland says goodbye to Dr. Beat Richner. The well-known and popular pediatrician "Beatocello" who died September 9, 2018 is painfully missed. The Grossmünster in Zurich is filled to capacity. A film with impressions from the funeral service.

At his last public concert Beat Richner played "kol nidrei" by Max Bruch. The concert took place in 2016 in the cathedral church Maria Himmelfahrt at the monastery Einsiedeln.