Regulatory and legal aspects of first aid in international legislation and in the republic of Uzbekistan

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The article analyzes the reasons that reduce the frequency of first aid to victims. In accordance with COPYRIGHT the current legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the © 2025 Original content from this work may be used under the terms issues of determining the rights, duties and of the creative commons attributes 4.0 License. responsibilities in the provision of first aid are considered. Particular attention is paid to foreign experience of legal regulation in the field of first aid. Keywords: First aid, legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, right, duty, legal responsibility, international law. Introduction: Global changes taking place in the modern world are accompanied by an increase in natural, man-made and social hazards, an increase in the number of accidents and sudden illnesses, and the number of deaths is also increasing. As a result, the role of first aid is increasing, which is of particular importance in acute respiratory and circulatory disorders, clinical death, when death can occur within 3- 6 minutes, and the arrival of an ambulance, even in countries with a developed emergency medicine system, requires about 10-20 minutes of minimum time. Thus, the provision of first aid to the victim is extremely important and relevant in conditions of extreme time shortage, when the victim may die before the arrival of medical workers. The solution to this problem could be timely and proper The American Journal of Management and Economics Innovations 7 https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajmei The American Journal of Management and Economics Innovations first aid by eyewitnesses of the incident, which would 1. Lack of confidence in their knowledge and practical significantly increase the victim's chances of survival. skills or their complete lack of 206 cadets (96.3%). However, as practice shows in Uzbekistan, at present, 2. Fear of legal responsibility and loss of time (fear of first aid to victims at the scene of an accident in critical harming the victim, fear that the victim may die due to situations, such as respiratory arrest and cardiac the fault of the person providing assistance, the need to activity, is practically not provided. Once again, please justify that mistakes were made when providing note that we are not talking about a banal injury when assistance, relatives the victim and the victim himself I scratched the skin and smeared the wound site with may well demand compensation for the harm to health green paint, but about a serious injury or illness caused during the provision of assistance) 184 cadets accompanied by respiratory and circulatory arrest. As (86%). a rule, in such situations, eyewitnesses of the incident 3. Psychological barrier (panic, fear of the sight of a are limited to calling an ambulance or independently “dead” person, severe trauma and blood, it is difficult to deliver the victim (patient) to the nearest medical force yourself to perform artificial ventilation to a institution, without observing the rules of stranger, especially if he had vomiting, to touch his transportation, which further aggravates his situation. body) 179 cadets (83.6%). The object of the study is first aid. 4. Irresponsibility, indifference to fellow citizens 115 The subject of the study is the regulatory and legal cadets (53.7%). aspects of first aid in international legislation and in the 5. Fear of contracting any disease in contact with the Republic of Uzbekistan. victim 88 cadets (41.1%). The purpose of the study was to identify the causes 6. I am not obliged to help the victim should be provided leading to a low rate of first aid and to analyze the by specialists 32 cadets (15%). regulatory aspects of first aid in international legislation and in the Republic of Uzbekistan 7. Lack of first aid 24 cadets (11.2%). To do this, the following tasks were set: 8. Fear of critical remarks from relatives or eyewitnesses of 18 cadets (8.4%). 1. Conduct a sociological survey on this issue among cadets of the University of Public Security. As the sociological survey shows, one of the important factors that reduce the frequency of first aid to victims 2. To analyze the regulatory framework of the Republic is the fear of legal responsibility and the subsequent loss of Uzbekistan on the definition of rights, duties and of time for «disassembly» in the event of the death of responsibilities in the provision of first aid. the victim or the occurrence of complications in the 3. Consider the regulatory and legal aspects of first aid process of first aid. When it comes to first aid, many in international legislation. eyewitnesses of an accident face a number of questions: METHODS «Do I have the right to provide first aid if I am not a medic?», «Will I be responsible if I harm the victim?», One of the important conditions for first aid in etc. Uzbekistan is adequate regulatory and legal regulation. To this end, more than 100 regulatory documents of Let‘s consider these and other frequently as