Midwives say a $2500 cash injection for each worker to help cover their lockdown costs isn't going to cut it. .
More than $92 million will go into essential health services that financially suffered during Covid-19, as well as into testing labs and ventilators.
It is the first instalment of $59 billion worth of funding from the Covid-19 Recovery and Response Fund.
The chief executive of the New Zealand College of Midwives Alison Eddy told reporter Eva Corlett the $5 million fund will provide some relief but anxiety over long term funding remains.
