Why "le" and then "lo" in this sentence?

Question

This is from a Spanish lesson I was doing. Why is there a "le" in front of "ayudaremos" and then a "lo" in front of "llevaremos" in the following sentence?

Sentence: "Somos paramédicos. Nosotros le ayudaremos aquí y después lo llevaremos al hospital." (context: paramedics speaking to an elderly male patient at his home)

To me, "lo" should be used in front of bother verbs. "We will help YOU" (direct object, receiving the action). "We will take YOU" (direct object, receiving the action). These are two independent clauses with the same structure, yet one uses "le" and the other uses "lo". Why?

Execellent answer and link from bosquederoble. I wonder if in more formal situations such as your example the older usage (indirect object le) is automatically used by many Spanish speakers in a professional capacity. - Jubilado, Jun 4, 2013

Answer 1

In some areas, ayudar takes a direct object, and in others it takes an indirect object (basically provide help to someone, instead of help someone)- and it is based on the fact that in medieval Spanish the verb was intransitive, and not on leísmo (and hence is not affecting the pronoun choice with the other verb).

So originally the verb was used with indirect objects, but with time some areas have shifted to using the direct object ( and some areas retain the older manner of using the verb).

This sentence must be taken from an area that uses the indirect object with ayudar.

Please see my answer here for further discussion:

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Thanks. I´m glad to know my questioning it was legitimate and it is indeed an ambiguous matter. - Trieltor, Jun 7, 2013

Answer 2

Objeto indirecto = a quién Objeto directo = qué

"Llevar" es un verbo transitivo, así que SIEMPRE necesita un OD