The visit strengthened defence medical cooperation and strategic collaboration." During the visit, the Indian delegation held military staff-level talks with the US defence medical officials. The talks between the two countries shared the best practices in specialised areas such as military medicine, marine medicine and aviation medicine. Besides, the issue of increasing medical cooperation in bilateral military exercises between the two countries was also discussed in detail. The Ministry of Defence described the visit as an important step towards deepening and broadening defence medical cooperation.