Berlin (AP) — doctors of the Eastern German Länder senior the hospital associations and associations are calling for more money for hospital doctors. The migration to the West was already dramatic Association representative said on Wednesday in Berlin from the new countries. “The shortage of doctors is a problem particularly in rural areas,” said Walter Kraus, President of the Association of Senior Hospital in Saxony-Anhalt. Around 1,000 medical centers in hospitals were vacant in the East, a survey among clinics have revealed. The demand of associations to so-called green cards for Eastern European physicians to tackle the shortage of doctors in the new States immediately rejected the Federal Ministry of health. In Germany would have to further reform instead training and working conditions and incomes increased, State Secretary Theo Schroeder said on Wednesday in the Inforadio Berlin Brandenburg. Then, aspiring physician safely back in hospitals and in the practices would go. The Association representatives accused the Government on the other hand, to carry off the reform of the statutory health insurance and thus harmonising the Eastern tariffs on the western part. “The new countries are betraying if not fast something happens”, Kraus said. Many doctors would also leave in the next few years because of his age. It draw the medical talent in the better paying West, such as Bavaria, said Gernot Stadie, President of the Association of senior clinicians in Thuringia, Germany.