The woman is being held on reasonable suspicion of aggravated assault, not attempted murder as the prosecutor had requested.
"You can assess these acts in different ways, and we have obviously done that here. It is early in the investigation and I have no further comment on it," says prosecutor Emma Häggström.
The woman, who denies the crime, continued to work at the hospital until she was arrested on Friday, Emma Häggström tells the newspaperUNT . She was initially arrested on the lower level of suspicion, but the suspicions were strengthened to probable cause after the weekend's investigative measures. She has now been remanded in custody on the lower level of suspicion.
"I made a different assessment, but the district court has made its assessment. I don't know why they have come to that conclusion," says Häggström.
How do you view the evidence?
"I can't really assess it. We still have a lot of investigative measures to do," says the prosecutor.
Emma Häggström is otherwise reticent and does not want to go into more detail about the suspected sequence of events or what substance she is suspected of having poisoned her colleagues with.
Severe symptoms
The woman and the plaintiffs were reportedly questioned over the weekend. The suspect reportedly declined a lawyer, but was nevertheless assigned a defense attorney. TT has been in contact with the woman's lawyer, who declined to comment.
The first case of illness occurred on October 25. A week later, two more people fell ill in the ward. All had symptoms so severe that they required intensive care. The prosecutor later announced that a fourth person is also suspected of having been poisoned.
Reports to the Swedish Work Environment Authority that SVT Uppsala has received show that the employees had critically low levels of potassium in their blood.
The analysis of what poisoned the people is not yet complete, prosecutor Emma Häggström told TT on Saturday.
Guards at the hospital
Care at Akademiska is not affected by the incident, according to the hospital's head of security, Viktor Ekström.
"The Academic Children's Hospital continues to take measures to increase safety and security in the workplace, including through continuous information to staff, the continued presence of guards and limited access to the premises," he says in a press release.
