A team of seven more doctors and nurses from Southern Colorado are now back from Haiti, where they spent the past week helping victims of January's earthquake.

"We're all very tired and we've all seen some things we never want to see again, but I think we did it for the right reasons," said Dr. Tiffany Willard, who went there with her husband, also a doctor from Colorado Springs.

The medical team was there as part of a relief effort made possible by a number of different factors, and one of the doctors says the trip almost didn't happen. The logistics of making the trip possible were very difficult, including landing a flight over there and coordinating with people once on the ground. The flight was made possible by local businessman Bob Penkhus, who donated his own plane and flew it there himself. More complications, however, arose when they tried to find a contact on the ground in the earthquake-ravaged country. They were finally able to locate someone who could meet them when they got there.

One of the doctors who returned on an earlier flight this past weekend said there was a huge disconnect between the relief agencies who responded to the country and the victims themselves. And, he added, if they hadn't brought their own supplies with them, the team would not have been able to provide any medical help.

Once they landed and got their bearings, the doctors then located a hospital that really needed help. They performed more than 120 surgeries, and Willard says they tried to make a lasting difference before they left.

"We at least changed one of the hospitals around and organized it quite substantially to make it function at a higher level," said Willard. "And I think that will stay with them, and continue for other teams that come after us."

The Springs doctors also said the number of patients who needed help was just endless, and Willard added that the hardest part for her was to see so many children who were in pain.

"A lot of children were having a lot of suffering. They were starving, and they were all very dehydrated," said Willard.

Now that they're back home and reunited with their own families, Willard told 11 News that the experience has changed her a little bit on the inside. "It makes us appreciate what we have and want to use it to the fullest."