Section 24-A. Actions against persons rendering health care services at the request of the department; defense and indemnification

The  provisions  of  section  seventeen  of  the  public  officers law shall apply to any
  person holding a license to practice a profession  pursuant  to  article
  one   hundred   thirty-one,   one   hundred  thirty-one-B,  one  hundred
  thirty-two,  one  hundred  thirty-three,  one  hundred  thirty-six,  one
  hundred  thirty-seven,  one  hundred thirty-nine, one hundred forty-one,
  one hundred forty-three, one hundred fifty-six or one hundred fifty-nine
  of the education law, who is  rendering  or  has  rendered  professional
  services  authorized  under  such license while acting at the request of
  the department or a facility of the department in providing health  care
  and   treatment   or  professional  consultation  to  inmates  of  state
  correctional facilities, or to the infant children of inmates while such
  infants are cared for in facility  nurseries  pursuant  to  section  six
  hundred  eleven  of  this chapter, without regard to whether such health
  care and treatment or professional consultation is  provided  within  or
  without a correctional facility.