Policy changes made by the Saskatoon Health Region following a deadly carbon monoxide leak in Humboldt a few years ago may have saved lives at a long term care facility in Wakaw.

According to Jackie Mann, Vice President of Integrated Health Services, the new safety precautions are working.

“Processes that we put in place since those incidents are working,” Mann said Friday. “That’s because we put the process in place that requires the monitors to be in place and that they are being looked at every 24 hours.”

All health region facilities now have carbon monoxide detectors. The move was made after three people died from carbon monoxide poisoning at Humboldt seniors home.

Three staff and one resident of the long term care facility in Wakaw reported symptoms but were not taken to hospital. The health region is still trying to determine what caused the leak.