Comedian Mulamwah is a qualified nurse and this is something that he  can go back to doing, if all doesn’t go well in the entertainment industry. He however admits that he can practice the career after refreshing because of the ever changing medical field.

After completing his studies, he landed an opportunity as an intern nurse at the Kenyatta National Hospital, where he was able to get more than enough experiences after working for 1 year and four months.

Speaking to  a local radio, Mulamwah shared some of the good and bad experiences he went through during the internship period.

1.Working in the last office

The last office is the room that patients are taken to after passing away in the wards. Here, patients clothes are changed, drips removed and labelling is done before the bodies are transferred to the morgue.

“My worst experience was being assigned the last office for the first time. When you work in a big hospital such as Kenyatta, you may find that overnight on a daily basis, maybe 6 or 7 people died and you are on duty in the last office that week. The room is far and you are alone with like 6 bodies, this is an experience you can never forget,” he said.

“But we thank God he enabled me do the job. It’s not a bad one and even working in the last office is a good thing because they deserve the last respect,” he added.

According to him, he never had such an experience while studying in school. To survive there, Mulamwah said that one has to get used to it and understand that it is just a job like any other.

2. Death in the wards

Another bad experience is losing patients he was attending to.

“It is usually bad, especially when you have been with them for long and they are like your family.  Sometimes as nurse, when the doctor sends you for something you return in a span of even two minutes, and find the patient is gone, ” he shared.

Mulamwah said the hardest bit of that is informing the patient’s family about their death.

“When they come for visiting hours, they come with food, and you know their person is dead. How will you begin telling them and it is part of your job to break the news,” he noted.

3. Weddings at the psychiatric ward

When he was assigned the psychiatric ward, one of the patients fell in love with him such that they would have a staged wedding daily.

“At the psychiatric ward, there is  one  lady who had loved me so much. Every morning we used to have a wedding. You just understand they are not mentally okay and just proceed with the ‘wedding’ as the rest sing. Once she has done all that she becomes calm and takes her medication. I did a lot  of weddings there, it was part of the healing process so you have to abide by what they are saying, get close to them and help them in the recovery process,” he said.

4. Successful deliveries and recoveries

One of the positive side of his nursing career is when he successful helped mothers deliver or when the patients recovered and were discharged.

“Sometimes you are walking in a supermarket and someone greets you telling you you helped them deliver years back. You feel content when you treat someone and they recover and go home with their belongings,” he said.

5. Good pay

Mulamwah denied that he ditched nursing to focus on comedy and content creation because of the frequent strikes and poor working conditions. According him art is something that is in born  and he began giving a shot at it when in campus. He added that he was earning a lucrative amount of money as an intern.

“When time came for internship, I picked hospitals in Nairobi because it is a land of opportunities,” he said. “The internship was even paying better as compared to the person who is employed. My tax was even little because they were only deducting Helb.”

The father of three stopped being a nurse because his career in comedy and content creation had become successful.