The Department of Chemistry at  University of Basrah hosted a lecture about the chemical reagents In clinical tests (blood tests), Professor Hassan Thamir AbdulSahib has highlighted the importance of chemical reagents used in clinical tests, especially blood testing, as well as the devices used in clinical tests and their mechanisms of work, as well as the factors that lead to the disturbance of the levels of certain elements in the blood and change their normal levels and the resulting diseases.

The lecture included a review of chemical reagents, chemical reactions, devices used in clinical tests (blood tests) and their mechanism of work, as well as a review of the factors that cause disorders of kidney and heart function, proteins, fats, sugar and salts in the human body.