MCATT provides ongoing support after Nonthaburi school shooting
Fourteen injured people remain in hospital, while crisis teams assessed 30 adults and 12 pupils as being at high risk from incident-related stress.
- Mental Health Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams (MCATT) are providing ongoing support to students, teachers, staff, families of the injured, the bereaved, and affected community members.
- In collaboration with other mental health departments, MCATT teams are supporting injured people in hospitals, visiting students and teachers at home, and attending funeral ceremonies.
- Initial stress assessments of 79 individuals identified 42 people (30 adults and 12 students) as high-risk, with three being referred to psychiatrists.
- Telephone and online counselling services have also been established to provide close support for those affected by the shooting.
Providing an update on mental health support for teachers and students affected by the mass shooting, Dr Paripon Juljerm, the Nonthaburi provincial public health chief, said figures as of 8am on Sunday (August 9, 2026) showed that 36 people had been directly affected by the incident.
They comprised 27 injured people and nine fatalities.
Of those injured, 14 remain in hospital.
Five are in serious condition and classified as red cases.
They have undergone surgery and are being cared for by doctors in intensive care units.
Another five have moderate injuries and are classified as yellow cases, receiving treatment in hospital wards.
The remaining four have minor injuries and are classified as green cases, with most having received wound care.
Juljerm added that the public health minister and the ministry’s permanent secretary had monitored the situation closely after the incident was reported.
They instructed hospitals to provide the injured with care to their full capacity, with their lives and safety as priorities.
If specialist doctors, operating theatres or advanced treatment were required, hospitals were to coordinate immediate transfers and ensure that paperwork did not impede treatment.
Mental health care is being provided alongside medical treatment.
Mental Health Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams (MCATT) have been assigned to provide continued support to students, teachers and staff who were present during the incident, the families of injured people, the bereaved and affected community members.
In collaboration with the Department of Mental Health, Srithanya Hospital and Mental Health Centre 4, teams have been deployed to support injured people and relatives staying in hospital, visit students and teachers at home, and attend funeral ceremonies.
MCATT assessments of incident-related stress carried out on August 8 covered 79 students, teachers and parents.
Thirty adults and 12 students were assessed as being at high risk, and three people in this group were referred to psychiatrists.
Initial telephone or online counselling was also made available to provide close support to those affected, with coordination conducted through guidance teachers who compiled the information.
