Children generally don't go to such locations and places where kids are found now are largely free of mines. Each Saturday evening, when he is in Siem Reap, Dr. Richner assumes his Beatocello persona and gives a public concert at the hospital. It is popular with tourists who've spent a day touring the ruins. Appeals for donations of blood and money are included in a repertoire that combines music, songs and funny stories with facts about the hospitals' operations. Dr. Richner is widely praised in Cambodia for his onslaught on corruption, which is endemic in the country.
High pay is combined with instant dismissal for corruption.
There's been only one case in the past two years. Patients, too, are compelled to be honest. Medications can be bought at the country's markets. Poverty-stricken parents would sell drugs there and then return to the hospital for more. But now Kantha Bopha dispensaries insist empty packs are handed in before another pack is issued.