One of the city's most senior health figures is urging black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME) communities to have the COVID-19 vaccination.
The nationwide callout follows the news that these communities are less likely to have the jab due to misinformation being spread, including rumours that the vaccine contains meat substances and that it can alter DNA.
Milton Keynes' Deputy Mayor, Cllr Mohammed Khan, has appealed to BAME communities telling them to ignore the "fake news" and listen to the professionals.
He is particularly concerned that the myths are putting off older, more vulnerable people from the Bangladeshi and Hindu communities from having the life-saving vaccination.
The Royal College of GPs is currently calling for a nationwide campaign to present the facts and increase vaccine take-up amongst these vulnerable communities, which data suggests are more likely to die with COVID-19 after being admitted to hospital.
Professor Joe Harrison, CEO of Milton Keynes Hospital, is too urging all people to have the jab if they are offered it.
Speaking to MKFM in a News Special Broadcast, Professor Harrison said the low uptake amongst BAME communities is a "concern".
He added: "We're now in a situation whereby the COVID virus has killed over 110,000 people in this country and we absolutely know that nobody has died of being given the vaccine. So please, please make sure that you get it.
"70% of the consultant staff we have here are from a BAME background, and the vast majority of those clinicians, and those consultants, have had the vaccine. If there is any doubt, then think 'the professionals are getting the vaccine'. Professionals who have studied the science are getting the vaccine. So please make sure that you do, and make sure that others around you do."
It has emerged this week that 91% of the UK's jabs have been given to white people. Just 5% have been given to Asian people, 2% to black people, and less than 1% to those who are mixed-race.
White people are more than twice as likely to have accepted the vaccine compared to black people, and three times as likely compared to those from a mixed background - which experts put down to misinformation being spread.
