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![1](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/kosovo%20girl.jpg.webp?h=9b087389&itok=qJ11ALud "A Roma girl stands near her home in the Chesmin Lug camp. Between 2005 and 2008, Zoran Savich, a pediatrician with the Health Center of Kosovo Mitrovica, saw more than 300 patients in Osterrode and Chesmin Lug. In that time, 77 people died of lead poisoning, many of them children. "I treated as many as I could but they were living in the same conditions and absorbing lead," Dr. Savich said. "When the treatments stopped, their levels went back up. It was useless."")
