The two faculty members at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah, Dr. Falah Hassan Shari and the instructor Rafid Abdul-Raouf Dolab participated in the first joint international scientific conference on health and medical research and patents, which was organized by the Middle Technical University - College of Health and Medical Technologies in Baghdad in cooperation with Al-Nusour University College.
The participation was with the patent (production of a kit for collecting cough samples to examine the presence of the emerging coronavirus from infected people), which included the production of a kit to isolate the emerging coronavirus from the cough drop of infected people.