The Maharashtra government is monitoring the heatwave conditions in Mumbai and neighbouring areas and taking various steps to tackle it, like keeping hospital beds reserved for heat stroke patients and creating awareness among people about heatwave management, state Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday.

He was speaking in the state Assembly after Shiv Sena MLA Sunil Prabhu raised the issue of a warning issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) about the heatwave in the state capital and adjoining districts.