Putra Medical Centre started as a 24-hours 20 bedded maternity and Polyclinic operating from a double storey bungalow house at Jalan Lumpur in Alor Star under the name of Pusat Lim & Yu.

The centre was the brainchild of Dr Lim Kim Huat and Dr Yu Ching Hsiu.
Putra Medical Centre was registered on 19th April 1991 primarily to participate in the growth of private hospitals in Malaysia and commenced operation on 2nd July 1995. The centre started with only a handful of Specialists and 3 Medical Officers. Today the centre has a team of 25 Residents Consultants, 16 visiting Consultants and 5 Medical Officers and a host of locums to support the Polyclinic. Putra Medical Centre has now grown into a 171 bedded, acute care & general medical/surgical hospital. Our mission is to provide high quality, cost effective standard healthcare, which will meet the needs and expectations of our patients through comprehensive primary, secondary and selected tertiary care services on an inpatient, outpatient, and referral basis.

Putra Medical Centre strives to ensure that all of our patients are treated with respect and dignity and their needs and complaints are attended efficiently and promptly. Putra Medical Centre is now in its 22th year of operation. It has a total workforce of 400 employees, ranging from senior management down to its auxiliary staffs. The centre is 100% owned by Unique Luxury Sdn Bhd (Company No. 215791-U). Putra Medical Centre is continuously upgrading its facilities to provide better, affordable and quality medical healthcare to the community.