Lt. Cmdr. Sugat Patel, a preventive medicine doctor embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge, stitches a laceration on a young boy's head during a medical clinic at the Couva District Health Facility during the Caribbean phase of the humanitarian/civic assistance mission Continuing Promise 2008. Kearsarge is the primary platform for CP 08, an equal-partnership mission involving the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Brazil, Nicaragua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. Medical clinic work in Couva 126505

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