I first saw this building from the bus ten years ago; on the way to Siem Reap. Imagine my surprise, when our taxi took us past this corner on the way to our hotel late in the evening. Two mornings later, I took a walk before breakfast and visited it - and found out that it is Dr. Beat Richner's Children Hospital. Part of the Kanta Bopha Foundation.
Beat Richner (born March 13, 1947) is a Swiss pediatrician, cellist (Beatocello), and founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia. He created the Kantha Bopha Foundation in Zurich in 1992 and became its head. He and another expatriate oversee and run the predominantly Cambodian-manned hospitals. As both a cellist and a medical doctor, Richner is known by patients, audiences, and donors as "Beatocello".[1]
- from Wikipedia.
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