Advisory
Consultancy & quality solutions
Advisory that finds and fixes what holds quality back — for hospitals, insurers, corporates and the food and beverage sector.
Healthcare quality consultancy · Est. 2021
Better healthcare,
built by a family
who practises it.
We're the Irabor family — physicians, a surgeon, a scientist, an engineer and an architect. HQS turns decades inside hospitals and clinics into one thing: better quality of care, from the ward to the community.
Six disciplines, one family
Improving the quality of healthcare delivery across Nigeria, Africa and beyond — through training, technology and infrastructure.
Ask why a problem keeps returning and you usually find a circle rather than a single cause. Shorter consultations leave patients understanding less, so more treatment stops early, and those patients come back — which makes consultations shorter still.
Every circle has one link that gives way first. Finding it is the work: it decides whether the training we design, the tool we build or the advice we give will still be holding a year later.
Who we are
A family of specialists, united by one mission.
We started HQS in 2021 to address something we'd each seen from the inside: the same failures repeating in the same places, held there by how work is organised, how information passes between people, and what one discipline alone can reach.
So we work across all of them at once — designing training, consultancy and digital tools that hospitals, insurers, professionals and communities can use to make care safer and kinder.
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- Director-specialists across medicine, science and engineering
- 2021
- The year we were registered as a Nigerian company
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- Practice areas, from clinic teams to community programmes
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- Quality care, at every touchpoint of the system
What we do
Four practice areas, one aim.
Each engagement starts by listening to the people who deliver and receive care, then builds from what they tell us.
Training
Training & soft skills
We put a team into the conditions it actually works under — time pressure, missing information, two things needed at once — and let it run. Communication and coordination show themselves under that pressure, which is where they can be practised and changed.
Technology
Digital products & virtual tools
Practical digital tools that help teams capture data, manage care and stay close to patients' needs.
Community
Public health & community
Community-led work on water, waste, food and medicines — turning everyday behaviour into better health and lower infection risk.
How we work
Principles that guide every engagement.
We listen first, adapt to the setting, and build with the teams and communities who will live with the result.
Context-specific
Solutions shaped to the realities of each system, team and community.
Patient-centred
Communication built around patients' needs and complaints, so care is directed where it matters.
Multidisciplinary
Medicine, public health, technology and engineering, working as one team on one problem.
Measurable impact
Interventions designed to reduce complications, lower costs and improve real health outcomes.
Projects
Where the work meets the ground.
Two pieces of work, each built around the point where a change would actually hold.
Nobody changes a habit they cannot see.
Campaigns tell students that resistance is dangerous, and the message slides off, because the risk lives in places too ordinary to notice — a drain beside a food queue, a bin left open, half a course of antibiotics passed to a friend.
So we had them find it themselves. Student clubs at two universities walked their own campuses, marked what they saw, and put it on a wall the whole campus passes. A risk you have drawn yourself is one you can act on.
Campus risk map · drawn by students at LAUTECH
Recorded at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, November 2025. Radio outreach reached an estimated 500,000 listeners; the digital exhibit recorded 116 visits and 517 interactions.
Dietary advice fails when it names food nobody buys.
A patient told to eat whole grains and lean protein leaves the consulting room with nothing they can use at a market stall. The advice is dropped, the condition moves on, and the complication arrives anyway — carrying a cost the patient and the system both pay.
So we wrote the prescription around what is on the plate, and around what a busy clinic can actually do in ten minutes: a fist, a palm, a tape measure, and a question about whether you can still hold a sentence.
- Portions by handOne to two fists of carbohydrate, one palm of protein, a palm of groundnuts or avocado.
- Risk from a tape measureWaist and hip, with the thresholds where diabetes and heart disease become more likely.
- Effort by the talk testMild is talking normally, moderate is talking without singing, vigorous is losing the sentence.
- Used with a consultationThe sheet supports a family physician's advice. It stands in for nothing on its own.
Who we work with
Partners in the work.
We deliver alongside foundations, funders and institutions who share our commitment to better care.
Foundation & field partner
Led delivery with the student clubs, co-produced the murals and digital exhibit, and co-designs the follow-up.
Funder
Funded the murals and the digital exhibit across both campuses in November 2025.
UNN
Student-led · University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Antimicrobial Resistance Club
Led the work at the main site: 40 students, 74 risk points recorded, 44 captioned photographs.
LAU
Student-led · Ladoke Akintola University of Technology
Antimicrobial Resistance Club
Walked the campus, recorded the risk points and drew the map.
The family
Our directors.
Six members of the Irabor family, each bringing a distinct discipline to the work of improving health quality.
Dr E. Achiaka Irabor
Founder & lead director
MBBS · MSc Developmental Psychology · FWACP-FM
Family physician and Fellow of the West African College of Physicians, leading the company's vision for quality-driven, human-centred care.
Dr David O. Irabor
Director · Surgery
MBBS · FWACS
Consultant surgeon and Fellow of the West African College of Surgeons, grounding our work in surgical and clinical excellence.
Dr Elaine O. Irabor Sogo
Director · Clinical medicine
MBBS
Medical doctor focused on patient experience and adherence, helping translate clinical insight into better everyday care.
Dr Thomas-Julian O. Irabor
Director · Science & research
DVM · MSc · PhD
Veterinary scientist and researcher, connecting human, animal and environmental health in our community and public-health work.
Mr George O. Irabor
Director · Engineering & technology
BEng · MSc Electrical & Electronic Engineering · GMNSE
Electrical and electronic engineer leading our technology and power-infrastructure solutions for health systems.
Ms Isabelle G. Irabor
Director · Design & environment
BSc Architecture
Architect shaping the spaces and environments where care happens — from clinic design to community infrastructure.
Get in touch
Let's improve the quality of care, together.
Whether you're a hospital, insurer, professional or community organisation — tell us the challenge you're facing.
OfficeNo. 2 Olatunji Adeoti Street, Okebadan Estate,
Alegongo, Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Alegongo, Akobo, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria