On 27 November 2025, although the flooding situation in Hat Yai has begun to ease in some areas, a troubling issue is gradually surfacing: the number of deaths, and the inconsistency between the figures reported by government authorities and rescue teams.
Starting from this morning, Siripong Angkasakulkiet, spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s Office, said on the program “Kammakorn Khao Khui Nok Jo” that the death toll was likely around 6–7 people. He clarified that these numbers represented patients who died at Hat Yai Hospital and were not directly caused by the flooding.
However, frontline workers such as actor–rescue volunteer Ple Nakorn and Dr. Supat Hasuwannakit, Director of Saba Yoi Hospital in Songkhla Province, believed that the true number of deaths was unlikely to be lower than the hundreds.
Later in the afternoon, the Emergency Flood Response Operations Center (EOC) issued a statement that Hat Yai Hospital recorded a total of 85 deaths during the flood period—55 flood-related and 30 unrelated to the flooding.
The EOC said that this number had been verified by the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) and asked the public to rely on this data to avoid confusion, while acknowledging that there might still be uncounted cases.
Beyond the recovery efforts, another pressing concern is the management of the deceased. The government has approved funeral assistance of 2 million baht per body and is preparing facilities for storing the bodies going forward.