Fourteen medical professionals from South Bend, Mishawaka, and Goshen left on private jets bound for the island Tuesday afternoon.

The doctors say they literally got the call right after the disaster.

“A couple days after the earthquake there was an urgent notice sent out through the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons saying there was an urgent need for orthopedic surgeons in Haiti,” Dr Michael Yergler from Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center said.

While it took some time to get organized, they're ready to go.

“We're going to Haiti, it’s showtime, going with my friends we're going to take care of sick people” trip organizer Mark Walsh said.

Just as important as their expertise are the medical supplies that they're taking with them.

The people of Haiti are also benefiting from the Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center move. The autoclave from the old site is making the trip too to help them at their location in north Haiti where patients will have to be helicoptered in.

“Basically all of Haiti has figured out if you had an orthopedic injury this is the place to send them because this is the only hospital equipped to this level,” Walsh said.

Many of the surgeries will be basic ones.

“They’ve had 175,000 people die and there’s probably millions of people that have open wounds, bad legs, bad arms,” Orthopedic Surgeon Fred Ferlic said.

“These things will be life saving because they'd become gangrenous and get blood poisoning those kinds of things so simple procedures and yet very vital,” Jeff Lindquist from Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center said.

While it's difficult to leave their families and lives behind for a week they say it's all relative.

“It's easy to go down there for a week and work very hard although we're coming back to the creature comforts we have here. People in Haiti don't have that luxury they have to stay there,” Lindquist said.

“I want to get down there safely I want to practice medicine and I want to come back simple as that,” Walsh said.

The doctors will be working in one of the safest places in Haiti, the north section of the island that can only be reached by port or by air.

That doesn't mean it will be easy, though, the location already has 350 patients in a 70 bed hospital, and they expect to work 12 to 15 hour days.