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![Beat Richner and Peter Studer (r.) Looked after the sick children in Cambodia together for almost 30 years.]()
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Beat Richner and Peter Studer (r.) Looked after the sick children in Cambodia together for almost 30 years.
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![Pediatrician Peter Studer, devotedly looked after the children in Cambodia.]()
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Pediatrician Peter Studer, devotedly looked after the children in Cambodia.
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![This is how Peter Studer is thought in Cambodia.]()
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This is how Peter Studer is thought in Cambodia.
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Jessica Keller
![A sea of flowers for pediatricians and humanists: Beat Richner's abdication took place in Zurich's Grossmünster in October 2018.]()
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A sea of flowers for pediatricians and humanists: Beat Richner’s abdication took place in Zurich’s Grossmünster in October 2018.
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Jessica Keller
![Peter Studer abdicating his companion Beat Richner. He died on May 6 of complications from a malignant brain tumor.]()
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Peter Studer abdicating his companion Beat Richner. He died on May 6 of complications from a malignant brain tumor.
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They fought poverty and disease shoulder to shoulder. In 1992, the legendary pediatrician Beat Richner (1947-2018), also known as Beatocello, and his companion, pediatrician Peter Studer († 73), opened the first hospital in Kantha Bopha in Cambodia. While Richner made his tireless commitment and requests for support public, the calm Studer acted as the doer in the background.
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When Richner had to return to Switzerland from Cambodia three years ago due to illness, Studer took over his role and continued the joint legacy with the help of the Swiss Kantha Bopha Foundation. Often on site for months.
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They got to know each other through an advertisement
«Peter worked in Cambodia before Richner. He fell in love with the country and the people. When Beat placed an advertisement, he was looking for a doctor for his hospital, Peter reported, so they came together, »said Foundation President René Schwarzenbach (60).
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In their 28 years together, Richner and Studer built five children’s hospitals and a birth house, treated 16 million children free of charge.
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Peter Studer passed away on May 6th
But last fall Peter Studer was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. And yet the doctor did not miss the opportunity to travel to Cambodia again in February this year. On Wednesday, May 6th, he died at home in Birrwil AG, in the presence of his wife Geneviève Cattin (73).
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The management team, consisting of three local specialists, will take over from him. With the support of the Swiss Foundation and Peter Studer’s widow, who was newly elected to the Board of Trustees. “In Peters and Beats sense, she will continue to do everything possible to help the children in Cambodia,” said Schwarzenbach, who is now taking care of Student’s abdication ceremony, which is to take place in Switzerland.
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