• Director(s):

    MESQUIDA (SEBASTIEN)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, WHAT'S UP PRODUCTIONS

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2011

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

The Arte Reportage team went to investigate this health system unlike any other in the world, and to find out more about the doctor-musician who has already raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the children of Cambodia.

His weapon is the cello. Beat Richner is a Swiss paediatrician and a renowned musician, who has revolutionised the health system in Cambodia by creating ultra-modern hospitals. His motto is "develop a medicine of the rich for poor countries".

His Kantha Bopha foundation is to celebrate its 20th anniversary and looking at the figures, it is a uncontested success. In two decades, millions of Cambodian children have been saved from tuberculosis and Japanese encephalitis, two of the major diseases affecting the country. Millions of others have been vaccinated.
And the paediatrician is uncompromising on the quality of care: his hospitals are enough to turn the majority of European paediatric wards green with envy.