BIS organises consciousness run in Coimbatore

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) organised a 2.5 km ‘Run for Quality – Strive for Standards’ run in Coimbatore on Saturday (November 1, 2025) as part of the World Standards Day 2025 celebrations.

Over 700 folks, together with college students, professionals, and health fanatics, took half within the run in Race Course. The purpose was to enhance consciousness about requirements, high quality, and security in on a regular basis life aside from highlighting the function of standardisation and certification in guaranteeing client safety and supporting industrial progress.

Sanket Balwant Waghe, Additional Collector (DRDA), Coimbatore, who flagged off the run together with G. Bhavani, head of the BIS – Coimbatore, highlighted the essential function of requirements in selling sustainable growth, client confidence, and innovation. A zumba warm-up session was additionally held. All the contributors acquired medals and certificates.

At a stakeholders’ assembly held not too long ago by the BIS in Coimbatore on “Requirements and suggestions for template/format of hospital payments,” which is in draft stage, the audio system stated that inconsistent and non-transparent hospital billing practices have lengthy been a supply of confusion and disputes between sufferers and healthcare suppliers.

The absence of a uniform billing construction ends in lack of readability on expenses, lack of comparability throughout hospitals, and difficulties in auditing and reimbursement. The customary goals to convey uniformity, transparency, and accountability within the billing practices of healthcare organisations throughout India.

It will prescribe the obligatory and non-compulsory components to be included in hospital payments issued by all kinds of healthcare organisations — together with hospitals, nursing houses, diagnostic centres, and outpatient clinics, a prss launch from the BIS stated.