Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-1708: Malpractice insurance on doctors and nurses in health

departments - Liability.

The State Commissioner of Health may purchase, with public

funds, insurance to protect the public against malpractice of

doctors and nurses employed by the State Department of Health full

time, and to indemnify such doctors and nurses in connection

therewith; and the director of any county, district or cooperative

department of health may purchase, with public funds, insurance to

protect the public against malpractice of doctors and nurses

employed full time by such department and to indemnify such doctors

and nurses in connection therewith. This section shall not be

construed to make the state or a county, or any of the aforesaid

departments of health, liable for damages resulting from such

malpractice.