The hospital was to serve the growing healthcare needs of not only the district of Temerloh, but as a referral centre for Kuala Lipis, Raub, Maran, Bentong, Jerantut and Bera.
Raub is the Parliamentary Constituency for former Women and Community Development Minister, Dato' Dr. Ng Yen Yen from BN-MCA, by beating Abu Bakar Lebai Sudin from DAP.
The Titiwangsa Mountains is part of suture zones that runs north-south, starting in Thailand (Nan-Uttaradit/Dien Bien Phu suture zone) and extending south towards peninsular Malaysia (Bentong-Raub suture zone).