A search and rescue worker looks through debris at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday.A search and rescue worker looks through debris at the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday. (Adrian Wyld/CP)

A Regina doctor is flying to Haiti to provide medical aid following the devastating earthquake.

Dr. Habib Rehman, who departed Friday, is working with an agency called Humanity First. He plans to be in Haiti for eight days.

"I will be praying for those people on the flight down there," Rehman said just prior to boarding his flight. "I will be planning how to organize myself down there. And I will be preparing myself to see the worst of it."

Although his specialty is internal medicine, Rehman expects he will encounter a range of medical needs.

Rehman has experience with other natural disasters.

In 2004, he traveled to Asia to help in the aftermath of a tsunami.

"We have been blessed with so many things and there are these people, unfortunately, who are stuck with these disasters," Rehman said. "So I think we have to repay back to society. Also my religion, Islam, teaches me to help people out. And according to the teachings of Islam, if you save one life, you have saved mankind."

Rehman said that while in Haiti he will be living in and working from tents set up by Humanity First.