Table 3.

Steps taken when a ‘very sick patient’ arrives at the emergency receiving areas in hospitals with no formal triage system

Hospital	Steps taken when sick patients arrive
Anaka hospital	History/vitals, triage, Clinician's review, registrations and admission/referral in that order
Gulu RRH and Kitgum hospitals	Triage, history/vitals, Clinician's review, registration and admission/referral in that order
Kalongo and St. Joseph's hospital	Triage, registrations, history/vitals, Clinician's review, admission/referral and billing in that order

Steps taken when sick patients arrive at emergency receiving areas in hospitals with no formal triage system in place (gathered and summarised from responses from participants from these hospitals)