Petrotrin’s med­ical plan will be rolled out next week and will con­tin­ue for an­oth­er two-plus years but Petrotrin’s Au­gus­tus Long Hos­pi­tal will be put up for lease or sale in Jan­u­ary.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan in­di­cat­ed this in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day re­ply­ing to Op­po­si­tion ques­tions.

Khan said new com­pa­ny op­er­a­tions will be­gin on De­cem­ber 1 and on that date all op­er­a­tions at Petrotrin’s med­ical fa­cil­i­ties will “be ter­mi­nat­ed.”

How­ev­er, he said a re­quest for pro­pos­als (RFP) will be is­sued in Jan­u­ary 2019 for lease or sale of the hos­pi­tal prop­er­ty.

Khan said arrange­ments are in place to se­cure all plants at the Pointe-a-Pierre base, in­clud­ing the hos­pi­tal, re­fin­ery and bun­ga­lows.

He said the Petrotrin med­ical plan will be rolled out next week. No­tice of meet­ings with pen­sion­ers and em­ploy­ees have been ad­ver­tised in the press.

The Min­is­ter said af­ter pub­lic ten­der, Sagi­cor will han­dle the plan for two years, af­ter which it will be fur­ther rolled over and fur­ther re-eval­u­at­ed.

“But a med­ical plan will con­tin­ue for re­tirees past the two years,” he stressed.

On the de­mo­li­tion of sev­er­al San­ta Flo­ra homes on Petrotrin prop­er­ty re­cent­ly, he said the lands were owned by Trin­topec and man­aged by the Pa­lo Seco Agri­cul­tur­al En­ter­pris­es Ltd (PSAEL).

He added the Trin­topec Board or­dered the de­mo­li­tion since the homes were stand­ing on lands which housed oil wells.

He said three of the nine homes were de­mol­ished af­ter re­moval no­tice was sent to oc­cu­pants a year ago.

He said they failed to com­ply and there was no choice but to de­mol­ish. (GA)