Editing Alor Setar (section)

===Healthcare===
{{See also|List of hospitals in Malaysia}}
The city is served by one public hospital, two private hospitals, three 1Malaysia clinics together with many public health and other type of health clinics.

Inaugurated in 2007, replacing the old Alor Setar Hospital, Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital is the largest and the main medical centre in the state, equipped with 1040 beds.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah|url=https://hsbas.moh.gov.my/images/borang/penerbitan_bahan_rujukan/LT2019.pdf|website= Hsbas.moh.gov.my}}</ref> As one of the important and major medical facilities in the northern Kedah, Sultanah Bahiyah Hospital also served as the [[tertiary referral hospital]] for twelve public health clinic in the Kota Setar/Pendang district, eight government hospitals and eleven private hospitals.