An experienced team of four medical professionals will leave to help earthquake-hit Haiti Tomorrow on a trip that they have funded themselves.

Three nurses and an EMT from Bermuda will travel to Haiti to work for a week on the paediatric ward of a hospital in the area of Mailot, North Haiti – an area where nurses are in short supply. The four generous ladies plan to carry on the work of Bermudian philanthropist, Philip Rego and his charity the Feed My Lambs Ministry.

The team will even sacrifice their personal comfort to carry medical supplies to the needy Haitians. Each of the four volunteers will bring fifty pounds of medical necessities like gauze, local anaesthetic, masks, gloves and bandages in their checked luggage.

Because there is a limit of fifty pounds per person, they will be forced to carry a week's worth of clothing and personal items in a small carry-on bag.

Also, each of the volunteers had to undergo an immunisation process involving five separate shots and a regimen of malaria medication.

Gaynelle Hayward, a registered nurse and the team leader for the trip said she has been to other impoverished parts of the world in her capacity as nurse but has never experienced anything like the devastation in Haiti.

"Not going to Haiti never crossed my mind," said Ms Hayward. "This is what I do. I want to go over there and help those orphans.

"All of these ladies are very experienced and we are a strong team with a lot of expertise."

Desiree Ford, a nurse and midwife said that the images of Haiti she has seen on television have been haunting her for weeks.

"When you feel the passion to help like I do, you don't have a choice – you have to go," she said. "I have worked in Romania and Africa and with the Red Cross but mentally I don't think you can prepare for something like this.

"But you cannot allow emotion to prevent you from doing your job."

Heather Roque, an EMT and nursing student said that although she will miss her husband and children, she is excited to help out.

"One of the reasons that I want to be a nurse is to do missions like this and help the less fortunate," she said. "We are lucky to live where we do and seeing devastation on such a grand scale really puts that in perspective."

Melissa Telemaque, the fourth member of the team, says that not only did she have to pay for her ticket to Haiti – she had to sacrifice all of her vacation time.

"I feel like I need to go to Haiti, it is the least I can do as a nurse," she said. "I have been glued to the TV since it happened and I was already about to take a vacation so I cancelled it to go and help. It is too bad that we are going in the capacity that we are because I have always wanted to go to Haiti."

The team of four leaves for Haiti on Thursday. After a stopover in Atlanta, the ladies will fly through Fort Lauderdale Florida before taking a chartered plane to the Island.