2019 - Cambodia-Avalon-Phnom Penh - 21 - Dr. Beat Richner Sculpture Cambodia National Museum
The next stop on our Avalon Waterways Mekong River cruise was to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.
Our second stop was to the National Museum. Lots of display rooms and our tour included a guide explaining it all. I suffered museum overload so only a couple of shots.
While waiting for our cyclo to take us back to the Siem Reap at the port we wandered the museum grounds. This bronze of Dr. Beat Richner, a Swiss Paediatrician is outside the main building.
ABOUT DR. RICHNER:
Dr Beat “Beatocello” Richner, the founder of the Cambodian Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals, passed away at the age of 71 in his native Switzerland in September 2018 after a battle with a serious illness.
Richner received his medical degree in 1973 and specialised in paediatrics. He was sent to Cambodia in 1974 and 1975 by the Swiss Red Cross to work at the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital.
In December 1991, Richner was asked by the Cambodian government to rebuild and manage the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital, which had been destroyed during Cambodia’s civil war, a call he answered.
On September 22, 1992, the Kantha Bopha I hospital was inaugurated in Phnom Penh, with it fully operational on November 2.
2019 - Cambodia-Avalon-Phnom Penh - 21 - Dr. Beat Richner Sculpture Cambodia National Museum
The next stop on our Avalon Waterways Mekong River cruise was to Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia.
Our second stop was to the National Museum. Lots of display rooms and our tour included a guide explaining it all. I suffered museum overload so only a couple of shots.
While waiting for our cyclo to take us back to the Siem Reap at the port we wandered the museum grounds. This bronze of Dr. Beat Richner, a Swiss Paediatrician is outside the main building.
ABOUT DR. RICHNER:
Dr Beat “Beatocello” Richner, the founder of the Cambodian Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospitals, passed away at the age of 71 in his native Switzerland in September 2018 after a battle with a serious illness.
Richner received his medical degree in 1973 and specialised in paediatrics. He was sent to Cambodia in 1974 and 1975 by the Swiss Red Cross to work at the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital.
In December 1991, Richner was asked by the Cambodian government to rebuild and manage the Kantha Bopha Children’s Hospital, which had been destroyed during Cambodia’s civil war, a call he answered.
On September 22, 1992, the Kantha Bopha I hospital was inaugurated in Phnom Penh, with it fully operational on November 2.