JACMEL, Haiti - Canada's Disaster Assistance Response Team is putting a new tool in the field in earthquake shattered Haiti.
The DART will send out a mobile medical team today for the first time in Haiti.
The team will spend the day in an area about 15 kilometres from the village of Leogane.
In an email, Canadian Forces Major Bernard Dionne says the area has been assessed as one where many Haitians suffered earthquake-related injuries.
The mobile medical teams consist of nearly a dozen medical personnel, plus a few soldiers to offer protection and Dionne says they can treat 100 people a day.
He says the military plans to send one team out each day, and will use helicopters to get them into areas where no road access is available.
Dionne says the concept was used successfully in Pakistan after that country was hard-hit by an earthquake in 2005.
Personnel from the teams are drawn from DART's medical clinic.
