The Water Resources Management Authority – WARMA has pledged to supplement the central government’s efforts in curbing the Corona Virus (COVID-19) threat through implementing and disseminating life-serving and preventive information to its personnel and the general public as approved by the Ministry of Health.
The Authority has to this effect identified essential staff that have remained on duty has it continues to fight vigorously to contain the spread of covid-19 in Zambia.
In a statement made available to the Zambian Business Times – ZBT on March 27, 2020, WARMA Public Relations Officer Joshua Kapila disclosed that the Authority has further identified non-essential staff who are reporting on duty only on a rational basis adding that other staff that shall work from home during the pandemic through the use of Microsoft Teams technology.
WARMA is currently working on modalities to send staff on paid leave in line with the Employment Code of 2019, in emphasis to keep staff safe from the vulnerabilities that Covid-19 poses.
Kapila also noted the need by all its clients to take advantage of its on-line services such as registrations and other services found on the Authority’s website.
He further disclosed that WARMA is providing hand sanitisers and washing basins for both its employees and clients, from the security point of entry to the premises, the reception, rest rooms and all offices to ensure that the working environment at the WARMA HOUSE is in line with the guidelines as stipulated by the Ministry of Health.
“We are therefore calling upon all stakeholders and the general public to emulate Government’s initiatives by implementing necessary measures that will ensure continued productivity, in ways that do not endanger the much-treasured lives of Zambians,” He added.
The Authority is further appealing to each citizen to play their respective rightful role in containing the spread of covid-19 in Zambia, by adhering to the measures which were outlined on 26th March 2020, by President Lungu during his national address on COVID-19.
