The 58-year-old woman patient who was raped by a youth at the MGM Medical College and Hospital’s medicine ward a week ago lodged an FIR against the unidentified rapist with the Sakchi police on Wednesday.

The woman, a resident of Parsudih, came to the Sakchi police station after a police team found her whereabouts following the sensational rape report published in a daily and circulated through social media on March 6.

Sakchi police station officer in-charge (OC) Kunal Kumar confirmed the rape of the patient on the third floor of the hospital on March 5 night.

According to the FIR, the woman had a chronic disease and was hospitalised since January at a bed in the female ward.

Apart from her, there were two other women patients on in the beds near her.

According to the survivor, none of the three women patients had bolted the room from inside that night.

Sakchi OC Kumar, quoting the survivor, said: “Around 11pm, a youth aged around 25 entered the female ward, came to the victim and made advances. As she screamed, the youth gagged her mouth with cloth and whipped out a knife, brandishing the knife at the victim as well as the two other women.

“He threatened to kill them if anyone shouted, raped the woman patient and fled,” the OC said.

The policeman added that the other women had kept quiet out of fear as the man had a knife.

The next day, the woman patient was found weeping and wanted to leave the hospital. She also confided about her ordeal to another male patient. She asked a staff nurse if she could leave.

The nurse arranged an auto-rickshaw for her. The other two women patients also left the hospital soon.

The OC said they were now trying to detect the culprit by scanning the CCTV camera footage and by keeping the survivor at a safe place so that there was no threat to her life.

“We have filed a case under Section 376 of IPC (rape) against the unidentified culprit. We have also taken the victim’s medical test. Hunt is on for the culprit,” the OC said.

MGM Medical College and Hospital superintendent Sanjay Kumar, who had earlier claimed that the rape report was a rumour, on Thursday said: “We have a set of home guards posted for hospital security. If a woman patient is raped despite security guards, what can I say,” he said.

Asked why he had earlier claimed the rape was a rumour, he did not answer.