help

From Latin auxilĭum, help is a term used to refer to the help, shelter or relief that is given to someone. For example: “Go ask for help! Martita fell into the well ", "The police immediately came to the call for help", "The captain asked the Prefecture for help as the storm destroyed the ship's controls".

Help is a assistance requested or provided. Whoever asks for help needs help to get out of a risky situation: a family who suffers a robbery, a man whose house is on fire, a child who is trapped in the middle of a flood or a plane with technical failures need help. Said request, therefore, can be answered by a person or one organization that provide aid.

On the other hand, there is also what is known as denial of assistance. In Spain we can say that, under that term, there is a crime committed by any other person who, in an absolutely unjustified manner, decides to carry out the disobedience of an action or requirement that the pertinent authority has carried out.

All this without forgetting either that, within what would be the scope of the Law, there is what is known as administrative assistance. This is a term that comes to be used to refer to the help or assistance that, within the scope of the administration, are provided by two bodies or authorities that belong to different orders.

In the same way, it is necessary to know that there is what is called a judicial aid body, which is an area of ​​the field of Justice in which officials who are in charge of carrying out from communication acts to archiving functions work. going through actions in which they act as judicial police.

In addition to all the above, we cannot ignore that during the Spanish Civil War there was an organization that received the name of Social Assistance. Within the Falange, it was included, which was defined as a humanitarian aid entity that was sustained by donations from the wealthiest families, which became almost impositions and social pressure measures for them.

Soup kitchens or hospices for orphans were created by this organization, which also had a marked propaganda air. Well, by helping the population most in need, what it did was convey the idea that the national forces would be backing it up and supporting it in whatever it needed.

It is known as first aid to the procedures and techniques of an immediate nature that are offered to the victims of a accident or disease sudden. It is about first aid since they constitute the first care that is given to the person in trouble and that, due to their characteristics, can save their life.

If a man he is drowning in the sea and another subject throws himself to rescue him, the rescued person will need medical attention. First aid can be provided by your rescuer or by another individual on shore, consisting of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and the provision of a coat to avoid hypothermia. After this first aid, you will be followed by more advanced medical assistance that will be provided in an ambulance or hospital.