A major controversy appears to be brewing between scientists and clinicians over the issue of the emerging drug-resistant leprosy. The Bombay Leprosy Project, a non-government organisation, maintained that recent press reports warning of drug resistance in leprosy had scared patients and confused doctors. Scientists at the Foundation for Medical Research (FMR) in Mumbai, a group of pioneering laboratory research leprosy in India, however, maintained that in the "political push" to eradicate leprosy by the year 2000, the early warning signals of long term problems were being pushed under the carpet.