CAMP LOUISE, Haiti Nearly 200 people from this tiny town in northern Haiti lined up at a makeshift clinic Thursday, hoping to get treatment from a Charlotte medical team volunteering its time and talent in the region.

It's been three years since a doctor came to this cement-block building with no electricity, no generator and no running water. The pharmacy was empty, except for a half-bottle of outdated aspirin, two bottles of malaria medicine and a dozen stray pills.

The nurses who staff the clinic can provide only basic checkups, measuring blood pressure and heart rates. Anything beyond that requires a trip to the hospital an hour away.

The Charlotte team hopes to change that.

The Carolinas HealthCare System's International Medical Outreach Program plans to bring a $1 million state-of-the art mobile clinic to Camp Louise.

The structure, a scaled-down version of those used in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, is expected to be open at least five days a week and be staffed by Haitian doctors. U.S. doctors would occasionally visit.

"If you look in the Western Hemisphere, if not the world, this place is one of those places that has the greatest need - and it's close to our home," said Dr. Hadley Wilson, who is leading the outreach program's Haiti effort.

He is chief cardiologist of Charlotte's Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute. He is traveling with Dr. Will Conner and others from Charlotte who are treating patients for cholera and other conditions. Wilson also wants to be sure Camp Louise, a town of 45,000 near Haiti's north coast, is the right location for their longer-term efforts.

On Thursday, nurse Célia Lazarre said the Charlotte team's visit is only the second time that doctors have been to the clinic in the six years she has worked there. The last doctor came in 2007. "And he only came for three days," she said. "We have no doctor."

Wilson saw one patient, a 70-year-old woman, who had an aneurysm on her neck. She reported that it had been growing for more than a year. Wilson sent her to on to the hospital, explaining that she could die if the aneurysm burst.

Another woman, 34-year-old Louis Pierre, said she walked more than an hour to see one of the doctors for her stomach pain. After waiting several hours to see one of the American doctors, she said "I have an infection."

The new clinic would be the size of a large mobile home, like those used by professional athletes and musicians. It will have two or three exam rooms, a lab, pharmacy and a check-in records area.

Theresa Johnson, coordinator of the CHS outreach program, said the unit would have wheels and could move, if necessary, but the goal is to provide some stability.

"This is more of a structure than a campsite," said Johnson, also executive director of the Heineman Foundation of Charlotte.

CHS would work with Community Health Access International, the nonprofit operated by Conner and his wife, Natalie. It would provide a unit, equipment and help with training. Community Health Access would coordinate staffing and help with operating expenses.

Conner picked the site with the assistance of the region's health minister, who gave him a list of five locations with poor access to medical care.

The CHS outreach program has also provided some 700 pounds of medical supplies for the weeklong trip to Haiti.

The international outreach program has previously provided some medical equipment to struggling international communities, but Wilson said the new clinic marks the first time the program has provided a full-scale medical facility.

"Our people obviously feel a great responsibility, and there are so many who could be helped," Wilson said. "It's so hard and so easy, at the same time, to make a difference."