Grace Ayensu-Danquah

Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah is a Ghanaian surgeon, gender advocate and politician who serves as the Member of Parliament for the Essikado-Ketan constituency in the Western Region. A member of the National Democratic Congress whose 2024 election ended the NPP's exclusive hold on the constituency, she is the first person to win the Essikado-Ketan seat on the NDC ticket since the constituency was created, combining a specialist surgical career with humanitarian and philanthropic work alongside her parliamentary mandate.

Professional background

Dr Ayensu-Danquah is a surgeon with specialist expertise in laparoscopic surgery and body contouring, and holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Master of Public Health alongside fellowship designations including FGCPS (Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons), FICS (Fellow of the International College of Surgeons) and FACS (Fellow of the American College of Surgeons). The combination of a Ghanaian postgraduate surgical fellowship and two internationally recognised surgical fellowships reflects a career built in both the Ghanaian health system and through engagement with global surgical professional bodies. Beyond clinical practice, she has worked as a medical educator, a gender advocate, a humanitarian surgeon and a philanthropist, deploying her medical expertise in service of community health and women's empowerment.

2024 election and parliamentary career

She contested the Essikado-Ketan constituency in December 2024 and won with 26,166 votes, defeating the NPP's Charles Bissue who received 17,754 votes. Her margin of more than 8,000 votes was a significant result in a constituency within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly that had historically returned NPP candidates. Her victory was widely noted as the first time the NDC had taken Essikado-Ketan since the constituency was formed, making her a historic first for the seat. She assumed office on 7 January 2025 as part of the NDC's national majority in the Ninth Parliament.

Political Legacy

Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah's distinction as the first NDC MP elected in Essikado-Ketan, combined with her multiple surgical fellowships and humanitarian engagement, gives her parliamentary career a profile that bridges elite professional achievement and historic political change in one of Western Region's key urban constituencies.